Bug#624870: Removal of dozens of packages due to perl major version upgrade to sid

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Mon May 2 11:31:28 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 01:02:13PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> I wanted to dist-upgrade this morning and apt wants to remove dozens
> of other packages.
> Putting "old" perl (5.10.1-20) on hold fixes the upgrade, so it looks
> like perl (5.12.3-6) breaks here.

Yes, this is expected whilst the transition (rebuild of ~ 400 packages)
completes. Please see #619117 for more information and try again in a
few days.

Dominic.

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