Bug#578221: perl: Cannot upgrade to Perl 5.12.0

[Niko Tyni]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 08:29:53AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:14:11AM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote:
> > Package: perl
> > Version: 5.10.1-12
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: experimental
> > User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: perl-5.12-transition
> > 
> > I can't upgrade to Perl 5.12. Here's the error I keep getting.
> > 
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   libcurl3-gnutls: Depends: ca-certificates but it is not going to be installed
> >   libuuid1: Depends: passwd but it is not going to be installed
> >             Recommends: uuid-runtime but it is not going to be installed

> The binary interface of Perl XS modules has been changed, so all the
> 350 or so Architecture:any lib*-perl packages need to be rebuilt against
> perlapi-5.12.0 to make them installable with the new perl package. For
> the official archive this is only going to happen when 5.12 enters sid.

Hi Andres,

there's now an unofficial archive of rebuilt packages, see
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2010/05/msg00000.html

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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org