Bug#548861: upgrade fails with "E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on perl"

[Jonas Meurer]

Package: perl
Version: 5.10.1-3
Severity: serious

hello,

perl upgrade fails on my up-to-date debian/unstable system:

# apt-get install libperl5.10 perl-base perl perl-doc perl-modules
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  groff
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libperl5.10 perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/16.2MB of archives.
After this operation, 532kB of additional disk space will be used.
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on perl

greetings,
 jonas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-6-amd64-resivo (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.9-26            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.7               4.7.25-8          Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries [
ii  libgdbm3               1.8.3-6           GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  perl-base              5.10.0-25         minimal Perl system
ii  perl-modules           5.10.0-25         Core Perl modules
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii  make                          3.81-6     An utility for Directing compilati
ii  netbase                       4.37       Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages perl suggests:
ii  libterm-readline-gnu-perl     1.19-2     Perl extension for the GNU Readlin
ii  perl-doc                      5.10.0-25  Perl documentation

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