Bug#949013: Upgrade of Perl stymied by a dependency issue

[gregor herrmann]

Control: forcemerge 942135 -1

On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:28:30 +1100, rob stone wrote:

> Package: libgtk2-perl                    
> Version: 2:1.24993-1
> 
> Whilst running a dist-upgrade, the Perl packages cannot be upgraded due
> to an erroneous dependency.
> 
> libgtk2-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.28.1 which is a virtual package,
> provided by: - perl-base (5.28.1-6), but 5.30.0-9 is to be installed

libgtk2-perl is about to be removed from the Debian archive (#912860)
and currently doesn't even build anymore (#942135).

So if you want to update your perl to 5.30, the only option is to
uninstall libgtk2-perl.


Cheers,
gregor

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