Your message dated Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:58:33 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#800512: liblocale-gettext-perl: Failed to install with
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Package: liblocale-gettext-perl
Version: 1.07-1
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
I was trying to install nvidia-driver from experimental repository but it
failed because of dependencies. I was following dependencies, until I
realized that the problem has something to do with package
liblocale-gettext-perl and its dependency perlapi-5.20.2. Apt failed
because I already had perl 5.22. So if you remove perlapi-5.20.2 from
dependency and just leave perl-base it will work out-of-box without
downgrading perl-base, which I had to do. Because perlapi-5.20.2 is just
virtual package provided by perl-base, which is already marked as
dependency.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers experimental
APT policy: (600, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=sk_SK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sk_SK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages liblocale-gettext-perl depends on:
ii libc6 2.21-0experimental1
ii perl-base [perlapi-5.20.0] 5.20.2-6
liblocale-gettext-perl recommends no packages.
liblocale-gettext-perl suggests no packages.
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:27:12PM +0200, Matúš Olekšák wrote:
> Package: liblocale-gettext-perl
> Version: 1.07-1
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> I was trying to install nvidia-driver from experimental repository but it
> failed because of dependencies. I was following dependencies, until I
> realized that the problem has something to do with package
> liblocale-gettext-perl and its dependency perlapi-5.20.2. Apt failed
> because I already had perl 5.22. So if you remove perlapi-5.20.2 from
> dependency and just leave perl-base it will work out-of-box without
> downgrading perl-base, which I had to do. Because perlapi-5.20.2 is just
> virtual package provided by perl-base, which is already marked as
> dependency.
Hi,
The dependency on perlapi-5.20.2 is indeed correct; liblocale-gettext-perl
is a binary perl extension which would need to be rebuilt to work
with perl 5.22. The perl packages in experimental are not suitable
for general use for the reason you've noticed - they are being
staged prior to a transition[1] (which involves liblocale-gettext-perl
and another ~ 600 packages being rebuilt).
In other words, this is not a bug in liblocale-gettext-perl or any other
package; it's simply a state of affairs which arises from using packages
in experimental without being aware of why they're there.
I'm not really sure why installing nvidia-graphics from experimental
caused new perl packages to be installed, since it's marked
NotAutomatic: yes.
Dominic.
[1] <https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl.html>
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