Package: perl Version: 5.14.2-3 Severity: important I issued an "aptitude install perl" on a fairly recent unstable installation and got very early
Get: 51 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/main perl-base amd64 5.14.2-3 [1,505 kB] Get: 52 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/main liblocale-gettext-perl amd64 1.05-7+b1 [20.4 kB] Get: 53 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/main libdate-calc-xs-perl amd64 6.2-1+b1 [65.5 kB] Fetched 15.4 MB in 13s (1,112 kB/s) /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Text/Iconv/Iconv.so: undefined symbol: Perl_xs_apiversion_bootcheck (Reading database ... 261416 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libperl5.12 ... (Reading database ... 261415 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace perl-modules 5.12.4-6 (using .../perl-modules_5.14.2-3_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement perl-modules ... Preparing to replace perl 5.12.4-6 (using .../perl_5.14.2-3_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement perl ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/perl_5.14.2-3_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/json_pp', which is also in package libjson-pp-perl 2.27200-1 I fixed the with --force-all and a subsequent removal of libjson-pp-perl. My hunch is though that this was an oversight in debian/control which should conflict and possibly provide libjson-pp-perl now. Thanks Steffen -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages perl depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-7 ii libc6 2.13-21 ii libdb5.1 5.1.25-11 ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-10 ii perl-base 5.14.2-3 ii perl-modules 5.14.2-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 Versions of packages perl recommends: ii netbase 4.47 Versions of packages perl suggests: pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl | libterm-readline-perl-perl <none> pn make 3.81-8.1 pn perl-doc <none> -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org