Package: apt Version: 0.5.27 Severity: normal Tags: sarge On a sparc sarge installation, running "apt-get install perl" wants to remove perl-doc, but running "apt-get install perl-doc" works with no additional packages installed or removed:
vlatko:~# apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true -s install perl 2>&1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Starting Starting 2 Investigating perl Package perl has broken dep on perl-doc Considering perl-doc 0 as a solution to perl 10238 Added perl-doc to the remove list Fixing perl via remove of perl-doc Done The following extra packages will be installed: libperl-dev libperl5.8 perl-base perl-modules The following packages will be REMOVED: perl-doc The following packages will be upgraded: libperl-dev libperl5.8 perl perl-base perl-modules 5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 426 not upgraded. Remv perl-doc (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) Inst perl-modules [5.8.3-3] (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) [] Inst libperl-dev [5.8.3-3] (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) [] Inst libperl5.8 [5.8.3-3] (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) [] Inst perl [5.8.3-3] (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) [] Inst perl-base [5.8.3-3] (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) Conf perl-base (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) Conf perl (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) Conf perl-modules (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) Conf libperl5.8 (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) Conf libperl-dev (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) perl-doc: vlatko:~# apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true -s install perl-doc 2>&1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Starting Starting 2 Done The following extra packages will be installed: libperl-dev libperl5.8 perl perl-base perl-modules Suggested packages: groff The following packages will be upgraded: libperl-dev libperl5.8 perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules 6 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 426 not upgraded. Inst perl-modules [5.8.3-3] (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) [] Inst perl-doc [5.8.3-3] (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) [] Inst libperl-dev [5.8.3-3] (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) [] Inst libperl5.8 [5.8.3-3] (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) [] Inst perl [5.8.3-3] (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) [] Inst perl-base [5.8.3-3] (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) Conf perl-base (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) Conf perl (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) Conf perl-modules (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) Conf perl-doc (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) Conf libperl5.8 (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) Conf libperl-dev (5.8.4-2 Debian:testing) Tried with 0.5.25 and 0.5.27. Zoran -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-4sarge1 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-6sarge1.2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
