Hello, two persons already complained about perl-5.005 causing troubles on their system. That's perfectly normal, if you install perl-5.005 with tools like apt or dselect all packages depending on "perl" will get removed [1]. All those packages will need to be updated, their maintainers are already aware of this, so they will upload corrected packages rapidly I hope.
You really should use apt-get upgrade (and NOT dist-upgrade) until the transition has been completed. However you can safely install the new perl-5.004 (he doesn't conflict with perl) and still have a working system. For the people who really want to be on the bleeding edge and who absolutely want to install perl-5.005 right now, they should download perl-5.005 and perl-5.005-base and install them by hand with : dpkg --force-conflicts -i perl-5.005-base_5.005.03.deb dpkg -i perl-5.005_5.005.03.deb But take care, some of your scripts may well not work anymore until some perl modules get recompiled. And apt may well be unhappy with the status of your installation ... The developers who need to recompile binary perl modules for perl-5.005 will have to install perl-5.005 this way. If you want to know more about this upgrade you can read this mail from Darren Stalder (the perl maintainer) : http://pandora.debian.org/~hertzog/new_perl.txt And you could also read the new perl policy : http://pandora.debian.org/~hertzog/perl-policy.html/ If you have some questions, or if you want help concerning this perl upgrade, you can respond to this mail by respecting the reply-to set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And for the maintainers of perl modules/scripts, please update your packages rapidly or ask for a NMU on debian-perl. Thanks in advance, Raphaël [1] The correct dependency is "perl5" now. -- Hertzog Raphaël >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/