Ok, after further analysis on IRC, it seems that the error in Bill's upgrade happens only because the packages are being removed, and apt removed some packages in an order that was not consistent with the declared dependencies. Since there's no reason to think apt is playing fast and loose with dependencies on *upgrade*, and even if it is that's not a perl bug, I think we can ignore that case for now.
I think we should go ahead and fix doc-base to only depend on Essential, and consider this issue closed. Adam, do you have any objections to Colin's patch? If not, do you want to upload it, or should I go ahead with an NMU? I'd like to get this resolved in the next day or two, so that we can send out the call for serious upgrade testing. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
