Bug#544712: Upgrading perl from 5.10.0-24 to 5.10.0-25 fails

[Julian Andres Klode]

Package: perl
Version: 5.10.0-25
Severity: grave

Perl fails to upgrade in my build chroot although it worked
on my laptop.

hp:/home/jak/bin# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  perl perl-base perl-modules
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/9443kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.3kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 9736 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace perl-modules 5.10.0-24 (using .../perl-modules_5.10.0-25_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement perl-modules ...
Preparing to replace perl 5.10.0-24 (using .../perl_5.10.0-25_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement perl ...
Preparing to replace perl-base 5.10.0-24 (using .../perl-base_5.10.0-25_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement perl-base ...
Setting up perl-base (5.10.0-25) ...
Setting up perl-modules (5.10.0-25) ...
Setting up perl (5.10.0-25) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/perl.postinst: 19: update-alternatives: not found
dpkg: error processing perl (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 perl
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
hp:/home/jak/bin# update-
update-alternatives        update-info-dir            update-rc.d                update-rc.d.distrib        
update-bootsystem-insserv  update-passwd              update-rc.d-insserv        
hp:/home/jak/bin# update-alternatives 
-bash: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.9-26            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.7               4.7.25-7          Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries [
ii  libgdbm3               1.8.3-6           GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  perl-base              5.10.0-25         minimal Perl system
ii  perl-modules           5.10.0-25         Core Perl modules
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii  make                          3.81-6     An utility for Directing compilati
ii  netbase                       4.37       Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages perl suggests:
ii  libterm-readline-perl-perl    1.0302-1   Perl implementation of Readline li
pn  perl-doc                      <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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