Trouble upgrading libperl5.10 on squeeze/sid

[Jeremiah Foster]

Hi,

	Just thought I would drop a line about some trouble I'm having  
upgrading on squeeze/sid. This is something of a preliminary email  
since I have not dug too deeply into why things are going wrong.

	I did `aptitude update` then `aptitude safe-upgrade` and amidst 101  
packages was perl-base. Here is the error perl-base emits when I try  
to install it:

  sudo aptitude install perl-base

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
   perl-base
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
   libperl5.10 perl perl-doc perl-modules
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 87 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1,016kB of archives. After unpacking 307kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
Writing extended state information... Done


E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (1) on perl
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libperl5.10:
  libperl5.10 depends on perl-base (= 5.10.1-5); however:
   Version of perl-base on system is 5.10.0-25.


dpkg: error processing libperl5.10 (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl:
  perl depends on perl-base (= 5.10.1-5); however:
   Version of perl-base on system is 5.10.0-25.
dpkg: error processing perl (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-doc:
  perl-doc depends on perl (>= 5.10.1-1); however:
   Package perl is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing perl-doc (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-modules:
  perl-modules depends on perl (>= 5.10.1-1); however:
   Package perl is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing perl-modules (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
  libperl5.10
  perl
  perl-doc
  perl-modules


I suspect this is due to some mis-configuration on my part since  
upgrading perl on a squeeze/sid chroot works without problems. I will  
dig further, but perhaps someone has some advice for a shortcut? (I am  
going to start by looking more closely at perl-base.)

Regards,

Jeremiah