[Aptitude-devel] Bug#867036: found a way to break the logjam also affecting non-perl packages' aptitude safe-upgrade

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

OK I finally found a way to move forward,
# aptitude safe-upgrade ~U!perl
185 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 4 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
Need to get 262 MB/283 MB of archives. After unpacking 51.8 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y

Now at least 185 other innocent packages can be upgraded.