Your message dated Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:18:01 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line corrupt /var/lib/dpkg/diversions file has caused the Debian Bug report #592332, regarding perl-doc: uninstallable/unupgradable to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: perl-doc Version: 5.10.1-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I did a dist-upgrade today. First corelist conflicted in perl, so I removed libmodule-corelist-perl to allow perl to upgrade. But something with perl-doc conflicted too, so I removed that as well. Now perl upgraded, but I can't install perl-doc anymore (seems perldoc is part of perl too?): $ sudo aptitude install perl-doc latex2html The following NEW packages will be installed: latex2html perl-doc 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 604 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/9,305kB of archives. After unpacking 20.8MB will be used. Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Selecting previously deselected package perl-doc. (Reading database ... 552853 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking perl-doc (from .../perl-doc_5.10.1-14_all.deb) ... Adding 'diversion of /usr/bin/perldoc to /usr/bin/perldoc.stub by perl-doc' dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/bin/perldoc.stub' with different file `/usr/bin/perldoc', not allowed dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-doc_5.10.1-14_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 Selecting previously deselected package latex2html. Unpacking latex2html (from .../latex2html_2008-debian1-5_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for doc-base ... Processing 1 added doc-base file(s)... Registering documents with dwww... Registering documents with scrollkeeper... Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-doc_5.10.1-14_all.deb localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex2html: latex2html depends on perl-doc; however: Package perl-doc is not installed. dpkg: error processing latex2html (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: latex2html Current status: 1 broken [+1]. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages perl-doc depends on: ii perl 5.10.1-14 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction perl-doc recommends no packages. Versions of packages perl-doc suggests: ii groff 1.20.1-10 GNU troff text-formatting system ii konqueror [man-browser] 4:4.4.4-1 KDE 4's advanced file manager, web ii man-db [man-browser] 2.5.7-3 on-line manual pager
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--- Begin Message --- so this is caused by a corrupt /var/lib/dpkg/diversions file, nothing which can and should be handled in the package itself. closing the report.
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