Bug#623875: libuuid-perl: dependency problem with perlapi-5.10.1 (not installable)

[Rodrigo Fresneda]

On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 01:36 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:05:06 -0300, Rodrigo Fresneda wrote:
> 
> > Cannot install the package because it depends on perlapi-5.10.1,
> 
> Like hundreds of other perl packages ...
> 
> > which is not installable, but is a virtual package provided by perl-base.
> 
> And perl-base is an essential package, which means
> (1) it should be present on any Debian system;
> (2) it's not declared as a runtime dependency.
> 
> 
> > ii  perl-base                     5.12.3-4   minimal Perl system
> > pn  perlapi-5.10.1                <none>     (no description available)
> 
> You are running perl(-base) from experimental, so running (arch:any)
> packages built against perl 5.10* won't work.

Yes, thanks. I downgraded perl to the unstable version, and now there
isn´t any dependency issue.
best,
rodrigo.

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> gregor