Bug#516289: perl dpkg unpack breaks upgrade between etch and lenny

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 03:00:25PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:31:57PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> > Preparing to replace perl 5.8.8-7etch6 (using .../perl_5.10.0-19_i386.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement perl ...
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/perl_5.10.0-19_i386.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/cpanp', which is also in package libcpanplus-perl
> > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> 
> Hm, that's unfortunate.
> 
> As the libcpanplus-perl package was never part of a stable release and was
> removed from Debian in 2005 (see #292754), I'm downgrading the severity.

Hm, I should also have mentioned that you should be able to fix this just
by removing libcpanplus-perl. The CPANPLUS module is included with the Perl
core since 5.9.5.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org