Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is possible that the cause of this problem is a package which has > mistakenly installed to the CORE (archlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.8) rather > than vendor directories. > > If such a package were to be installed *before* perl, then a directory > would be created, which dpkg would then honour when unpacking perl, > rather than creating the symlink.
Then this had to be an essential package, doesn't it? So I guess this would have been detected long ago. > Please check the output of 'dpkg -S /usr/lib/perl/5.8'. You should > only get 'perl-base' as a match. If any other packages appear, > please file a bug on that package. That's o.k. here. So this is infact a local issue, even if I don't know how it happend. But that's my own problem, not yours! Thank you for the help! Ulrich Fürst
