Bug#649685: Update of Package perl-modules fails

[Dominic Hargreaves]

reassign 649685 apt
forcemerge 639290 649685
severity 639290 important
affects 639290 perl-modules
thanks

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 07:24:20AM +0100, Matthias Faulstich wrote:
> Since yesterday (2011/11/22), apt-get dist-upgrade of testing/wheezy fails
> with the message:
> 
> E: »perl-modules« konnte nicht unmittelbar konfiguriert werden. 
> Lesen Sie »man 5 apt.conf« unter APT::Immediate-Configure bezüglich weiterer Details. (2)
> 
> (perl-modules could not be configured immediately ... )
> 
> Every-day-upgates of (testing/wheezy) before yesterday had no problems with my apt.conf
> settings,  so I think the problem is really caused by perl-modules.

This has been recognised as a bug in apt
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639290);
unfortunately I'm not aware of a workaround other than to install
apt from experimental, which isn't ideal.

I'm merging this with the original bug, and upgrading the severity.
Possibly it should even be raised to serious...

Dominic.

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