Bug#636048: perl not upgradable from Squeeze to Testing

[Clayton]

On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:31:42 +0100
Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:

> My suggested way of upgrading from squeeze to wheezy would be to use
> apt-get dist-upgrade; have you tried that?
> 
> I'm surprised that aptitude doesn't offer to install newer versions
> of those listed packages (which will need to be upgraded at the same
> time as perl, other than libperl5.10 which will need to be removed at
> the same time) though.

Yes, you nailed it, I had a brain fart and neglected to upgrade before
I started adding new packages. apt-get dist-upgrade did the trick.

Surprising indeed, though, that aptitude could not sort out the
dependencies.

Thanks,
Clayton