On 15/10/2020 09:07, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > My clue was the list of dependencies in the reportbug boilerplate of > #972218: > > … > ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 > ii perl-modules-5.24 [liblocale-codes-perl] 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 > ii sane-utils 1.0.31-2 > > liblocale-codes-perl is provided by perl-modules-5.24. That's > oldstable and perhaps an *unused* leftover from an upgrade. > > My guess was that gscan2pdf misses a dependency on `perl' (missing in > the reportbug's list). perl would bring suitable perl-modules-x.yy > package that is actually in the search path (@INC) and provides > Locale::Language. > > However, libtry-tiny-perl has a dependency on `perl', so while I still > think that gscan2pdf needs to depend on `perl', I don't understand how > missing that would lead to the situation in the bug report.
Thanks for the hint. John still has perl-modules-5.24, which provides liblocale-codes-perl. But as his perl is probably 5.30, perl-modules-5.24 is probably not in his @INC. So the reason that liblocale-codes-perl wasn't pulled in when upgrading gscan2pdf was because apt thought it was already provided by perl-modules-5.24, which is only true for perl 5.24. Does this mean that liblocale-codes-perl should be breaks: perl-modules-5.24 ? Does anyone see a better solution? Regards Jeff
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