Bug#639290: APT resolution issue occurs even without libc6 in the loop

[Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 22:47, Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net> wrote:
> I've been able to reproduce this same issue on my new laptop with only
> perl and modules in the dependency chain.
>
> I just installed it with squeeze, then decided I wanted to upgrade
> since my graphics card isn't well supported under 2.6.32.
>
> Initially the failing package set was much larger, but I was able to
> install a bunch of stuff by hand and get it down to just this list.

Ok, by removing some leaf packages that depended on other things in
the list, I was able to work it down to this smaller list that still
fails due to inability to immediately configure perl.  Unfortunately
gnome-desktop-environment depends on libgnome2-perl, which depends on
a lot of other modules, so I doubt I will be able to shrink it
appreciably from here.  For a point of reference, this system was
literally installed from scratch very recently with the squeeze
installer, using the bog-standard tasksel for Laptop + Standard System
+ Desktop Environment.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

Upgrade:
  libcairo-perl
  libglib-perl
  libgnome2-canvas-perl
  libgnome2-perl
  libgtk2-perl
  libhtml-parser-perl
  liblocale-gettext-perl
  libnet-dbus-perl
  libpango-perl
  libtext-charwidth-perl
  libtext-iconv-perl
  libuuid-perl
  libxml-parser-perl
  perl
  perl-base
  perl-modules