Bug#548860: perl: installation fails (Could not perform immediate configuration)

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: perl
Version: 5.10.1-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

It is impossible to install the package:

# apt-get install libperl5.10 perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libperl5.10 perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/16.2MB of archives.
After this operation, 532kB of additional disk space will be used.
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on perl

FYI:

# apt-get install libperl5.10 perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules -s
[...]
Inst libperl5.10 [5.10.0-25] (5.10.1-3 Debian:unstable) []
Inst perl-base [5.10.0-25] (5.10.1-3 Debian:unstable) [perl ]
Conf perl-base (5.10.1-3 Debian:unstable) [perl ]
Inst perl-doc [5.10.0-25] (5.10.1-3 Debian:unstable) [perl ]
Inst perl [5.10.0-25] (5.10.1-3 Debian:unstable) []
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on perl

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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               4.7.25-8          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-gnu-perl     1.19-2     Perl extension for the GNU Readlin
ii  perl-doc                      5.10.0-25  Perl documentation

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