Bug#266482: gnome-control-center: woody -> sarge upgrade failure (1:1.4.0.5-3 -> 2.6.1-7)

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 06:57:36PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 23:50:45 +0100, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
[snip..]
> 
> Now the strange part is this:
> > Can't locate File/Basename.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 17.
> 
> In woody, there is a "/usr/share/perl/5.6.1/File/Basename.pm" in the
> perl-modules 5.6.1-8.3 package, and doc-base (0.7.11) Depends: perl, and
> perl (5.6.1-8.3) Depends: perl-modules.

It's also in perl-modules 5.6.1-8.7 which is what I had installed.
I can see no reasoning for it doing this. I tried putting together
a new woody chroot and upgrading that and it worked correctly.

> 
> This leads me to believe that something was fundamentally wrong with your
> woody installation and thus that there isn't anything to fix in
> gnome-control-center in this regard.

Don't know how it would get into this state. The machine started life as
a fresh woody install, kept up to date with all security patches.

Think we will file this one under WTF???


Stuart


close 266482
thanks

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