On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 01:09:22PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: >On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:15:18AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 01:12:08AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: >> > >Package perl-base has broken dep on perl-5.004-base >> > > Considering perl-5.004-base 0 as a solution to perl-base 5133 >> > >Fixing perl-base via remove of perl-5.004-base >> > >Package perl has broken dep on perl-5.004 >> > > Considering perl-5.004 1 as a solution to perl 53 >> > >> > would suggest that it's either not i386, or your Packages file(s) are >> > broken. perl-base doesn't depend on perl-5.004-base. Quite the >> > opposite in fact, it conflicts. >> >> That's a conflict in apt-speak. Note that it resolved the "broken dep" >> by removing perl-5.004-base. The perl-5.004 bit confuses me though. > >The problem is still present. I could fix it manually, but I'd prefer >to see if we can find the problem. Is there any way I can get more >useful information out of apt about what it thinks it's doing? Is >there any more information I can provide to anyone to help elucidate >this mystery?
I think I know what the problem is, but I need to talk to Jason about it. I just made the packages conflict/replace/provide libpod-parser-perl (#86459), and found to my dismay that apt-get chose to resolve the conflict not by removing libpod-parser-perl, but rather perl and anything which depended on it. I believe the same problem is occuring with perl-5.004-base, which perl-base conflicts with. This doesn't occur with perl-5.005* or perl-5.6* because they're versioned conflicts, and a newer (dummy) version is available. I could perhaps create yet *more* dummy packages for perl-5.004*, but I would prefer to avoid that. Regards, -- Brendan O'Dea [email protected] Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633
