Bug#623875: libuuid-perl is uninstallable, which makes linux-image-2.6.38-2-686 fail to install

[Steven Shiau]

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I confirmed this issue. This is when I want to upgrade packages on
Debian Sid, it will remove linux-image-2.6.38-2-686:
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  debconf-i18n dictionaries-common doc-base iamerican ibritish
ienglish-common
  ispell libclass-accessor-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl
  libemail-valid-perl libfont-freetype-perl libhtml-parser-perl
libio-pty-perl
  libipc-run-perl libjson-xs-perl liblocale-gettext-perl libnet-dns-perl
  libparse-debianchangelog-perl libperl5.10 libsub-name-perl
  libterm-readkey-perl libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl
  libtext-wrapi18n-perl libuuid-perl libxml-libxml-perl libxml-simple-perl
  lintian linux-base linux-image-2.6.38-2-686 module-assistant
  xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-geode
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cpp-4.6 g++-4.6 gcc-4.6 libatkmm-1.6-1 libatkmm-1.6-dev
libclass-isa-perl
  libencode-locale-perl libfile-listing-perl libfont-afm-perl
  libhttp-date-perl liblwp-mediatypes-perl libnet-http-perl libperl5.12
  libpod-plainer-perl libquadmath0 libstdc++6-4.6-dev libswitch-perl
  libwww-robotrules-perl
The following packages will be upgraded:
  acpi binutils binutils-dev clonezilla cpp cpp-4.5 cvs dbus dbus-x11
debconf
  debhelper dos2unix drbl exim4-base exim4-daemon-light fluxbox g++
g++-4.5
  gcc gcc-4.5 gcc-4.5-base gcc-4.6-base guile-1.8-libs imagemagick
iso-codes
  jfbterm lftp libapt-pkg-perl libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data
  libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev
  libc6-i686 libcrypt-ssleay-perl libdb4.6 libdb4.7 libdb4.8 libdbus-1-3
  libdbus-1-dev libexif12 libgcc1 libgeoip1 libgl1-mesa-dev
libgl1-mesa-dri
  libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev libgomp1 libgpgme11
  libgstreamer0.10-0 libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkmm-2.4-dev liblcms1
liblcms1-dev
  libmagick++3 libmagickcore3 libmagickwand3 libmozjs2d libmpfr4
  libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpcap0.8 libperl-dev
libpixman-1-0
  libpixman-1-dev libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.5-dev libtokyocabinet8
libxfixes-dev
  libxfixes3 libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxmu6 libxmuu1 locales
  mesa-common-dev mkpxeinitrd-net perl perl-base perl-modules
python-reportbug
  reportbug squashfs-tools wget x11-utils x11proto-xext-dev xfce4-panel
  xserver-common xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev
  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-video-apm
xserver-xorg-video-ark
  xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus
  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740
  xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
xserver-xorg-video-mga
  xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
  xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
  xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-rendition
xserver-xorg-video-s3
xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
  xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
  xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
xserver-xorg-video-trident
  xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-vesa
xserver-xorg-video-vmware
  xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
125 upgraded, 18 newly installed, 34 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

If I accept it, and want to reinstall linux-image, it fails:
$ sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.38-2-686
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-image-2.6.38-2-686 : Depends: linux-base (>= 3~) but it is not
going to be installed
E: Broken packages

$ sudo apt-get install linux-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-base : Depends: libuuid-perl but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

$ sudo apt-get install libuuid-perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libuuid-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.10.1 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

Steven.

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Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org>
National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan.
http://www.nchc.org.tw
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