Bug#516289: perl dpkg unpack breaks upgrade between etch and lenny

[Niko Tyni]

severity 516289 normal
retitle 516289 missing replaces for libcpanplus-perl
notfound 516289 5.8.8-7etch6
found  516289 5.10.0-19
thanks

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:31:57PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> Preparing to replace perl 5.8.8-7etch6 (using .../perl_5.10.0-19_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement perl ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/perl_5.10.0-19_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/cpanp', which is also in package libcpanplus-perl
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Hm, that's unfortunate.

As the libcpanplus-perl package was never part of a stable release and was
removed from Debian in 2005 (see #292754), I'm downgrading the severity.

I can add a Replaces/Conflicts/Provides entry to the next sid upload,
but that doesn't help much because we assume upgrades don't skip a
stable release.

I don't think this is worth a stable update, but maybe it could be sneaked
in if we need one for some other reason.

Thanks for the report,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org