Bug#627028: Broken perl dependencies in testing - please close the bug

[Matthias Faulstich]

Hi Gregor!

Am Mittwoch 18 Mai 2011 schrieb gregor herrmann :
> On Wed, 18 May 2011 07:43:18 +0200, Matthias Faulstich wrote:
> 
> > Maybe, I found the "bug".
> 
> Hm, I don't think so ...

I did ;-) but the three packages were not enough.

I downloaded 
liblocale-gettext-perl_1.05-6+b1_amd64.deb  
libxml-parser-perl_2.36-1.1+b2_amd64.deb    
perl-base_5.12.3-6_amd64.deb

and tied to install them with
dpkg -i *.deb

That causes an error message, that
perl 
has not already been configured.

Additionally, I tried
perl_5.12.3-6_amd64.deb
and then, after a new "missing configuration" message      
perl-modules_5.12.3-6_all.deb

At least, I installed all 5 packages manually at once.
After that, all dependency problems were solved and 
apt-get dist-update
worked again.

Before that, I followed your advice to check, whether there were any packages
set on "hold" with
dpkg --get-selections
but there were none.

Unfortunately, I don't know now, what exactly prevented the normal update.

Please close the bug - and thank you very much for your kind helping!!!

Cheers
Matthias



> > Packages available, for
> > liblocale-gettext-perl
> > There are only these candidates:
> > 
> > 1.05-6+b2: powerpc sparc 
> > 1.05-6+b1: amd64 armel i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel s390
> 
> Yes, and 1.05-6+b1 is the one rebuilt against perl 5.12:
> 
> $ apt-cache show liblocale-gettext-perl
> [..]
> Package: liblocale-gettext-perl
> Source: liblocale-gettext-perl (1.05-6)
> Version: 1.05-6+b1
> Installed-Size: 104
> Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2)
> Pre-Depends: perl-base (>= 5.12.3-6), perlapi-5.12.3
> 
> That's i386 but it should be the same for amd64.
> 
> [The +bN versions are used for binNMUs (binary non-maintainer
> uploads, i.e. automatic rebuilds against newer libraries etc.).
> I don't know why there is a +b2 on powerpc and sparc.]
> 
> 
> Looking through the bug report again, I realize that we haven't seen
> the actual error output yet. Could you please run
> 
> apt-get -s dist-upgrade
> 
> and paste the output?
> 
> Starting aptitude's graphical interface might also help; maybe you
> have some packages set to hold, or some locally installed or obsolete
> packages, that still depend on perl5.10.
> 
> Cheers,
> gregor
>  
>