Bug#625705: perlapi: Re: After last perl update unable to install packages which still depend on 5.10

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 11:24:39AM +0200, Alberto Maurizi wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.12.3-6
> Followup-For: Bug #625705
 
> This is to confirm that many packages depend on "perlapi":
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libpurple0: Depends: perlapi-5.10.1 which is a virtual package.
>   libcairo-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.10.1 which is a virtual package.
>   libgtk2-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.10.1 which is a virtual package.
>   libpango-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.10.1 which is a virtual package.
>   libmouse-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.10.1 which is a virtual package.
>   libgnome2-canvas-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.10.0 which is a virtual package.
>   libperl5.10: Depends: perl-base (= 5.10.1-20) but 5.12.3-6 is installed.
>   pidgin: Depends: perlapi-5.10.1 which is a virtual package.
>   libgnome2-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.10.0 which is a virtual package.

Yes. This is expected, not all the packages have been rebuilt yet.

Updating this bug does not help in any way as the perl maintainers do
not control the rebuild process - that's the domain of the release team.

If a package fails to build against Perl 5.12, it is considered a bug
in that package. Such a package will stay uninstallable because of the
old perlapi-5.10.x dependency until the bug is fixed or the package
is removed from Debian. Perl 5.10 is not coming back.

See #619117 and

 http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl.html

for more information.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org