Package: perl Version: 5.22.2-5 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
Dear Maintainer, Hi! Thank you for all the hard work you all to so #poverty level folks have a chance to keep up with the tech world, too! As to why I'm writing, just tried to upgrade a select 30+ packages in Sid/Unstable. Apt-get is my chosen method to do so. Received the message that Received the advisement that: 2 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 141 to remove ALMOST let it happen because I was in a hurry and didn't immediately catch that message. Only thing I know to do in this kind of situation is to set Perl and Perl-base aside and wait for the next release so that's how I'm approaching it today. As a disclaimer that just came to mind, other important packages are not yet upgraded, as well. Those include cpp-6, libreoffice, linux-image-4.7.0-1-amd64, and linux-source-4.7. Reason is that I'm on dialup and am currently looking at approximately 400MB of upgrades that must be done incrementally. I always upgrade the smaller packages first. I figure that's important to know since each personally developed Debian system understandably succeeds and fails based on what's available within itself. The same attempt at 141 package removals occurs for both Perl and Perl-base but for now am only filing the bug against the primary "perl" unless you advise otherwise. Lastly, I didn't know if it was important for you to know which packages were affected so they are all included directly below. Thank you again *so much* for all you do. Happy Debian'ing!!! :) Cindy Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape* + + + BEGIN COPY OF APT-GET'S PERL UPGRADE ADVISEMENT + + + The following NEW packages will be installed: libperl5.24 perl-modules-5.24 The following packages will be REMOVED: apt-file apt-show-versions aspell aspell-en claws-mail claws-mail-i18n console-setup console-setup-linux debconf-i18n debsums dictionaries-common enchant gnome-user-guide hunspell-en-us inkscape keyboard-configuration libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libapt-pkg-perl libb-hooks-endofscope-perl libcairo-perl libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libclass-accessor-perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl libclone-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libdata-alias-perl libdata-optlist-perl libemail-valid-perl libenchant1c2a libfcgi-perl libfile-fcntllock-perl libfile-fnmatch-perl libfile-libmagic-perl libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl libglib-perl libgtk2-gladexml-perl libgtk2-perl libgtkspell0 libgtkspell3-3-0 libhtml-form-perl libhtml-format-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tree-perl libimage-magick-perl libimage-magick-q16-perl libimport-into-perl libio-pty-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libipc-run-perl liblist-moreutils-perl liblocale-gettext-perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl libmailtools-perl libmath-random-isaac-xs-perl libmime-tools-perl libmodule-implementation-perl libmodule-runtime-perl libmoo-perl libnamespace-clean-perl libnet-dbus-perl libnet-dns-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libossp-uuid-perl libpackage-stash-perl libpackage-stash-xs-perl libpango-perl libparams-classify-perl libparams-util-perl libparams-validate-perl libparse-debianchangelog-perl libperlio-gzip-perl libscalar-list-utils-perl libsoap-lite-perl libsocket6-perl libsort-key-perl libsub-exporter-perl libsub-identify-perl libsub-name-perl libsvn-perl libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libunicode-utf8-perl libvariable-magic-perl libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 libwww-perl libxml-parser-perl libxml-twig-perl libxmlrpc-lite-perl libyaml-libyaml-perl libyelp0 licensecheck lintian miscfiles modem-manager-gui moreutils packaging-dev piuparts qemu-launcher svn-buildpackage tasksel tasksel-data xombrero xorg xscreensaver xscreensaver-data xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-libinput xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev 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-qxl xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware yelp + + + END COPY OF APT-GET'S PERL UPGRADE ADVISEMENT + + + -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages perl depends on: ii dpkg 1.18.10 ii libperl5.22 5.22.2-5 ii perl-base 5.22.2-5 ii perl-modules-5.22 5.22.2-5 Versions of packages perl recommends: ii netbase 5.3 ii rename 0.20-4 Versions of packages perl suggests: pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl | libterm-readline-perl-perl <none> ii make 4.1-9 pn perl-doc <none> -- no debconf information
