Public bug reported: - Perl dependencies of this package ``` $ sudo apt-cache show libsys-syslog-perl Package: libsys-syslog-perl Priority: optional Section: universe/perl Installed-Size: 138 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.29-1+deb7u1build0.12.04.1 Depends: perl (>= 5.14.2-6ubuntu2.6), perlapi-5.14.2, libc6 (>= 2.4) Filename: pool/universe/libs/libsys-syslog-perl/libsys-syslog-perl_0.29-1+deb7u1build0.12.04.1_amd64.deb Size: 36912 MD5sum: 0bf246e268910f25d6dd071d667a010a SHA1: 9894e351b625aea2b9aba6b371f84341a2ace5db SHA256: cce1f876de242d2285b993fdf75975d57371278c653c8ea7068895e5974fee95 Description-en: Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls Sys::Syslog is an interface to the UNIX syslog(3) program. Call syslog() with a string priority and a list of printf() args just like syslog(3). . Note that an earlier version of this module is included in the perl package, and this one will override it when installed. Please don't depend on this package unnecessarily if the older one is enough. Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sys-Syslog/ Description-md5: ad197ee604176e44bb423c28b0acc790 Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Origin: Ubuntu
Package: libsys-syslog-perl Priority: optional Section: universe/perl Installed-Size: 138 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.29-1build2 Depends: perl (>= 5.14.2-3build1), perlapi-5.14.2, libc6 (>= 2.4) Filename: pool/universe/libs/libsys-syslog-perl/libsys-syslog-perl_0.29-1build2_amd64.deb Size: 37540 MD5sum: 0200e4bd21882782878b5db7de3519e3 SHA1: 8ac2c58e8a1c469ab8d3aed0f2984401a97ff903 SHA256: d47388796dd0853e88ae9f842327769d749b242b29039d751abd123339d861d7 Description-en: Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls Sys::Syslog is an interface to the UNIX syslog(3) program. Call syslog() with a string priority and a list of printf() args just like syslog(3). . Note that an earlier version of this module is included in the perl package, and this one will override it when installed. Please don't depend on this package unnecessarily if the older one is enough. Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sys-Syslog/ Description-md5: ad197ee604176e44bb423c28b0acc790 Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Origin: Ubuntu ``` - Latest Perl release ``` $ sudo dpkg -l | grep perl [..] ii perl 5.14.2-6ubuntu2.5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language ii perl-base 5.14.2-6ubuntu2.5 minimal Perl system ii perl-modules 5.14.2-6ubuntu2.5 Core Perl modules ``` - Install the package using apt-get ``` $ sudo apt-get install -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes libsys-syslog-perl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Starting Starting 2 Investigating (0) libsys-syslog-perl [ amd64 ] < 0.29-1build2 -> 0.29-1+deb7u1build0.12.04.1 > ( universe/perl ) Broken libsys-syslog-perl:amd64 Depends on perl [ amd64 ] < 5.14.2-6ubuntu2.5 > ( perl ) (>= 5.14.2-6ubuntu2.6) Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libsys-syslog-perl : Depends: perl (>= 5.14.2-6ubuntu2.6) but 5.14.2-6ubuntu2.5 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ``` - Workd-around: use the 0.29-1build2 version instead ``` $ sudo apt-get install libsys-syslog-perl=0.29-1build2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libsys-syslog-perl 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 37.5 kB of archives. After this operation, 141 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ap-southeast-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe libsys-syslog-perl amd64 0.29-1build2 [37.5 kB] Fetched 37.5 kB in 0s (63.5 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package libsys-syslog-perl. (Reading database ... 71291 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libsys-syslog-perl (from .../libsys-syslog-perl_0.29-1build2_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up libsys-syslog-perl (0.29-1build2) ... ``` ** Affects: libsys-syslog-perl (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1617138 Title: libsys-syslog-perl (0.29-1+deb7u1build0.12.04.1) breaks Perl dependecy on Ubuntu LTS 12.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsys-syslog-perl/+bug/1617138/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
