Missing Warnings.pm = broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew n marshall
Hi, In a recent attempt to install the Glide3 libraries from unstable, I recently broke my debconf. Apparently, I tried this during the Perl 5.6 package upheaval, which the new debconf relied on, and libglide3 relied on that. Currently, I am just looking to return to a working debconf since

Re: Missing Warnings.pm = broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Install perl-5.004 (not -base) When will people learn? -- see shy jo

Re: Missing Warnings.pm = broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew n marshall
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: Install perl-5.004 (not -base) I have perl-5.005.03-7 installed, which I would think would be enough. When will people learn? When there is obvious documentation on the difference, such in the description of the packages. If this is a reoccuring

Re: Missing Warnings.pm = broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew n marshall wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: Install perl-5.004 (not -base) I have perl-5.005.03-7 installed, which I would think would be enough. When will people learn? When there is obvious documentation on the difference, such in the description of the

Re: Missing Warnings.pm = broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Dave Bresson
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Andrew n marshall wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: Install perl-5.004 (not -base) I have perl-5.005.03-7 installed, which I would think would be enough. When will people learn? When there is obvious documentation on the difference, such in the

Re: Missing Warnings.pm = broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew n marshall
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: When will people learn? When there is obvious documentation on the difference, such in the description of the packages. If this is a reoccuring problem, then the current documentation on the issue should be revaluated. Unfortunatly we can't go

Re: Missing Warnings.pm = broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Dave Bresson wrote: I'm all for that. Right now there's so many different versions and perl packages (dependencies and conflicts) that i can't make heads or tails of it. No, it's quite simple. In unstable there are two packages: perl-base perl Notice there are no longer versions or any of

Re: Missing Warnings.pm = broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew n marshall wrote: I think I should have phrased the above as a question: Since I have 5.005 installed and it still doesn't work, what else can I try or read? You can trying making use that /usr/bin/perl points to some version of perl which you have the full package, not just a

Re: Missing Warnings.pm = broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew n marshall
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: Andrew n marshall wrote: I think I should have phrased the above as a question: Since I have 5.005 installed and it still doesn't work, what else can I try or read? You can trying making use that /usr/bin/perl points to some version of perl which

Re: Missing Warnings.pm = broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew n marshall wrote: Ah.. yes. perl was pointing to an old copy of 5.6. Now I have removed 5.6 completely, verified that both perl-5.005-base and perl-5.005 are properly installed. Now this is the error I get: Can't locate object method value via package Debconf::Question at