Package: apt Version: 0.3.13 I started from a new chroot slink installation of base-2.1.tgz, then `apt-get dist-upgrade' to potato, followed by the installation and purging of a few packages. Then I needed perl, so I decide to install perl-5.005 and got the following:
# apt-get install perl-5.005 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: perl-5.005-base perl-base The following NEW packages will be installed: perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base 1 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 2146kB of archives. After unpacking 5652kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main perl-5.005-base 5.005.03-4 [412kB] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main perl-base 5.004.05-1 [1346B] Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main perl-5.005 5.005.03-4 [1733kB] Fetched 2146kB in 4m33s (7862B/s) E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package perl-base due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option. E: Internal Error, Could not early remove perl-base A post to -devel generated the following response: > Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:58:41 -0400 > From: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Dependency error installing perl-5.005 on fresh potato. > > Send a copy of /var/lib/dpkg/info/status to the apt folks. > > To hide the problem, you can do: > > dpkg --configure --pending > apt-get -f install > > [But please send in a bug report with the status file first.] Therefore, I am sending this bug report against apt. The status file is at http://www.debian.org/~psg/status.apt-bug and will be deleted when the bug is closed.
