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regarding cannot install perl on ppc
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Package: perl
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
When trying to install perl on freshly installed PPC sid system:
The following packages are BROKEN:
perl-doc perl-modules
The following NEW packages will be installed:
perl
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.2MB of archives. After unpacking 43.8MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
perl-modules: Depends: perl (>= 5.10.0-1) but 5.8.8-12 is to be installed.
perl-doc: Depends: perl (>= 5.10.0-1) but 5.8.8-12 is to be installed.
Resolving dependencies...
Unable to resolve dependencies! Giving up...
The following packages are BROKEN:
perl-doc perl-modules
The following NEW packages will be installed:
perl
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.2MB of archives. After unpacking 43.8MB will be used.
aptitude failed to find a solution to these dependencies. You can solve them
yourself by hand or type 'n' to quit.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
perl-modules: Depends: perl (>= 5.10.0-1) but 5.8.8-12 is to be installed.
perl-doc: Depends: perl (>= 5.10.0-1) but 5.8.8-12 is to be installed.
Resolve these dependencies by hand? [N/+/-/_/:/?] n
Abort.
This makes perl uninstallable on sid on the PPC. (Not sure if this carries
over to other archs.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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--- Begin Message ---
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:03:37PM -0400, Edward Guldemond wrote:
> When trying to install perl on freshly installed PPC sid system:
When using sid, you should know about this kind of temporary breakage
that is only caused by missing builds and not necesseraly due to a bug
in the package... so closing this bug.
Cheers
Luk
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