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

[Eric Van Buggenhaut]

Niko Tyni wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that's what I did, I dpkg'd -r libcpanplus-perl

Thanks for being so prompt to reply.

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Eric