Bug#627028: Broken perl dependencies in testing

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:05:52 +0200, Matthias Faulstich wrote:

> > This seems wrong; as you can see from
> > <http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libxml-parser-perl>
> > this package depends on perlapi-5.12.3, not perlapi-5.10.0.
 
> > and the output of
> > apt-cache policy libxml-parser-perl
> Previously, I did an
> apt-cache update
> again.

apt-get update I suppose ...
 
> libxml-parser-perl:
>   Installiert: 2.36-1.1+b1
>   Kandidat:    2.36-1.1+b2
>   Versionstabelle:
>      2.36-1.1+b2 0
>         500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
>  *** 2.36-1.1+b1 0
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

This also looks good ("Kandidat: 2.36-1.1+b2"). I'm a bit puzzled why
this version shouldn't get installed by a dist-upgrade.
 
> Additionally, 
> apt-cache show libxml-parser-perl
> shows this:
> 
> Package: libxml-parser-perl
> Source: libxml-parser-perl (2.36-1.1)
> Version: 2.36-1.1+b2
> Installed-Size: 672
> Maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group <debian-xml-sgml-pkgs at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Architecture: amd64
> Depends: perl (>= 5.12.3-6), perlapi-5.12.3, liburi-perl, libwww-perl, libc6 (>= 2.4), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8)

> Package: libxml-parser-perl
> Status: purge ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: perl
> Installed-Size: 740
> Maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group <debian-xml-sgml-pkgs at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Architecture: amd64
> Source: libxml-parser-perl (2.36-1.1)
> Version: 2.36-1.1+b1
> Depends: perl (>= 5.10.0-9), perlapi-5.10.0, liburi-perl, libwww-perl, libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8)

> You can see the dependency: 
> ..
> Depends: perl (>= 5.10.0-9), perlapi-5.10.0, liburi-perl, libwww-perl, libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8)
> ..

Yes, of 2.36-1.1+b1, but 2.36-1.1+b2, which is the installation
candidate, has "perl (>= 5.12.3-6), perlapi-5.12.3".


Cheers,
gregor

-- 
 .''`.   Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - PGP/GPG key ID: 0x8649AA06
 : :' :  Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/
 `. `'   Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe
   `-    NP: Bruce Springsteen: The River
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/perl-maintainers/attachments/20110517/73f5e85d/attachment.pgp>