Dependency problem in libsub-quote-perl and libmoo-perl

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 02:23:08PM +0200, Nathael Pajani wrote:
 
> While upgrading my Debian system I ran in a dependency problem with
> libsub-quote-perl and libmoo-perl (which are indirect dependencies of
> gnucash).
> 
> libmoo-perl (2.002005-1) used to have the following files :
> usr/share/man/man3/Sub::Defer.3pm.gz
> usr/share/man/man3/Sub::Quote.3pm.gz
> usr/share/perl5/Sub/Defer.pm
> usr/share/perl5/Sub/Quote.pm
> 
> Those files are now provided by libsub-quote-perl and are no more present in
> libmoo-perl, at least as of version 2.005005-1, but libsub-quote-perl does
> not mention any dependency on libmoo-perl or conflicts with older versions
> of libmoo-perl leading to a dpkg error during system upgrade.
> 
> ---------
> Préparation du dépaquetage de .../libsub-quote-perl_2.006009-1_all.deb ...
> Dépaquetage de libsub-quote-perl (2.006009-1) ...
> dpkg: erreur de traitement de l'archive
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libsub-quote-perl_2.006009-1_all.deb (--install) :
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man3/Sub::Defer.3pm.gz', which is also
> in package libmoo-perl (2.002005-1)
> -----------
> 
> I fixed this on my side by upgrading libmoo-perl manually, but you should
> fix this for others ;)

Hi, thanks for the report. Please consider using the 'reportbug' tool
next time, so we can track your issue better.

The thing here is that libmoo-perl 2.002005-1 ancient. It was shipped
in Debian 9 (stretch). It looks like the metadata that used to prevent
the above error on upgrades was removed in

  libsub-quote-perl (2.006006-3) unstable; urgency=medium
  
    [ Debian Janitor ]
    * Remove constraints unnecessary since buster (oldstable)
  
   -- Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at debian.org>  Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:45:40 +0000
 
Skipping stable releases on upgrades is not supported in Debian, so I 
suppose we are not going to fix this. Sorry.

-- 
Niko Tyni	ntyni at debian.org