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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

