On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 20:53:56 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.7.5-3 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-CC: p...@packages.debian.org > > I had a very harrowing upgrade for the perl transition. The first > upgrade managed to remove perl-base somehow and failed spectacularly. > The second and third upgrades also failed but less so and the fourth > upgrade succeeded. I was doing the upgrade in the aptitude console UI > and didn't (AFAIR) select the removal of perl-base.
Just as a data point: I've successfully updated perl 5.22 on 2 unstable machines with the aptitude TUI 2 weeks ago, but I can't remember how much I had to help aptitude (that was still during the binNMU phase). Today I updated 2 testing machines (disclaimer: raspbian, but I'm not aware of any difference in either aptitude or perl) to perl 5.22 again with the aptitude TUI, and I watched closesly: - Both upgrades succeeded. - In both cases aptitude's first solution was to keep everything; the second solution was the correct one: remove the old perl-modules and libperl5.20 and install/upgrade the rest. - In both cases perl-base was upgraded. - On one machine perl-base was marked as automatically installed before, on the other as manually installed, so that doesn't make a difference. Unfortunately this doesn't tell us what went wrong for pabs but at least it might be a hint that not everything is horribly broken :) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Rolling Stones
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