On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 May 2008, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 09:17:06PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> >> Package: perl
>> >> Version: 5.10.0-10
>> >> Severity: important
>> >
>> >> Setting up perl (5.10.0-10) ...
>> >> /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: 
>> >> /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Locale/gettext/gettext.so: undefined symbol: 
>> >> Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr
>> >
>> > This should be fixed with the reintroduction of the versioned
>> > perl pre-dependency in liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-4, see
>> > #479220. Please confirm that you have an older version installed.
>>
>> It sounds like we have a duplicate bug.  You're welcome to merge at
>> your discretion.
>
> Can you reply to the question? :)
>
> Also such an upgrade is best handled by apt-get/aptitude rather than "dpkg 
> -i". :)

I wouldn't have even attempted to manually perform the upgrade if some
people checked that the update can factually be performed with apt-get
or aptitude, before uploading their packages.  In this case, having
had the versionned pre-depends right from the start would have
prevented this.

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi

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