Re: Bug#95801: won't let me upgrade perl from stable to unstable
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Brian May wrote:
> WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
> perl-5.004-base (due to perl-base)
I'm confused, why is this a bug? You asked it to remove a key component of
perl, perl is an essential package, doing this may not actually complete,
and it may break *inst/*rm scripts that need to be run, so it complains.
> apt-get dist-upgrade would work, but I want to remove my Helix packages
It likely found a way to do this upgrade without getting rid of
perl-5.004-base, that is what it is designed to do..
> The thing is, I can't even see how this is meant to work:
>
> dewey:~# dpkg --print-avail perl-base
Try looking at the current version of perl-base, and then look at the
thing that actually provides the pre-depends it needs, which in this case
will be perl-5.004-base. This has very little to do with the packages you
are going to install.
Jason
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