Oh I do run a MUCH newer dpkg so that might be why I do not see this issue at 
all.
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> On Jan 7, 2019, at 9:09 PM, Leigh Smith <le...@leighsmith.com> wrote:
> 
> So digging further, the problem installing perl5162-core appears to be due to 
> a bug in dpkg handling directories that differ in capitalisation when 
> installing on a case sensitive file system.
> 
> /sw/lib/perl5-core/5.16.2/version/Internals.pod
> 
> was unable to be installed because /sw/lib/perl5-core/5.16.2/version/ was not 
> created. 
> 
> Checking with dpkg the created perl5162-core_5.16.2-103_darwin-x86_64.deb 
> shows that /sw/lib/perl5-core/5.16.2/version/ is within the deb file and 
> /sw/lib/perl5-core/5.16.2/Version/, however the lower case version was not 
> being created, while /sw/lib/perl5-core/5.16.2/Version was being created 
> which only had one file. 
> 
> ls -l /sw/lib/perl5-core/5.16.2/Version                                       
>                                                      
> total 32
> -r--r--r--  1 root  admin  14605  7 Jan 11:47 Requirements.pm
> 
> So dpkg seems to be confused when two directories differing in case should be 
> created on a case sensitive APFS file system. Manually creating the directory:
> 
> sudo mkdir /sw/lib/perl5-core/5.16.2/version/
> 
> then allows perl5162-core to install, no longer complaining about 
> Internals.pod being unable to be installed.
> 
> Leigh
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