Package: libcpan-meta-perl Version: 2.150010-1 Tags: buster sid Severity: serious
After the switch to versioned Provides in perl, libcpan-meta-perl has become uninstallable. This happens with perl-modules-5.24 5.24.1-5 installed on the system: ,---- | # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libcpan-meta-perl_2.150010-1_all.deb | dpkg: regarding .../libcpan-meta-perl_2.150010-1_all.deb containing libcpan-meta-perl: | libcpan-meta-perl breaks libparse-cpan-meta-perl (<< 1.4420) | perl-modules-5.24 provides libparse-cpan-meta-perl and is present and installed. | | dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libcpan-meta-perl_2.150010-1_all.deb (--install): | installing libcpan-meta-perl would break perl-modules-5.24, and | deconfiguration is not permitted (--auto-deconfigure might help) | Errors were encountered while processing: | /var/cache/apt/archives/libcpan-meta-perl_2.150010-1_all.deb `---- Short analysis: - libcpan-meta-perl depends on perl which depends on perl-modules-5.24 - libcpan-meta-perl breaks libparse-cpan-meta-perl (<< 1.4420) - perl-modules-5.24 provides libparse-cpan-meta-perl (= 1.4417.001) => libcpan-meta-perl both depends on and breaks perl-modules-5.24. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 4.11.8-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages libcpan-meta-perl depends on: ii perl 5.24.1-4 ii perl-modules-5.24 [libjson-pp-perl] 5.24.1-4 libcpan-meta-perl recommends no packages. libcpan-meta-perl suggests no packages. -- no debconf information