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

[Adnan Hodzic]

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.

I got on the idea about updating individual packages dependencies after I tried to install Pidgin and got following error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 pidgin : Depends: libpurple0 (>= 2.7.0) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: perlapi-5.10.1


If you need any additional information please do let me know.


Adnan
 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-6          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.13-2           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdb5.1                5.1.25-10        Berkeley v5.1 Database Libraries [
ii  libgdbm3                1.8.3-9          GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  perl-base               5.12.3-6         minimal Perl system
ii  perl-modules            5.12.3-6         Core Perl modules
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii  netbase                       4.45       Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages perl suggests:
pn  libterm-readline-gnu-perl | l <none>     (no description available)
pn  make                          <none>     (no description available)
pn  perl-doc                      <none>     (no description available)

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