Bug#625705: perlapi: After last perl update unable to install packages which still depend on 5.10

[Niko Tyni]

forcemerge 624870 625705
thanks

On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 10:50:12AM +0200, Adnan Hodzic wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.12.3-6
> Severity: important
> File: perlapi
> 
> After last Perl update I lost many applications, full list is: 
> 
> hpijs hplip hplip-cups libcairo-perl libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-perl libgtk2-perl libhpmud0 libpango-perl libperl5.10 libpurple-bin libpurple0 libsane-hpaio libsnmp15 
> pidgin pidgin-facebookchat pidgin-musictracker pidgin-plugin-pack
> 
> All of them apparently depend on 5.10, so this bug may not even be
> a perl one as these packages might want to update their control files
> along with perl 5.12 dependency.

> Either way I was unsure and thus submited this bug as perl bug.

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.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org