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-=| miguel, Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:07:00PM -0700 |=-
> I upgraded a server via apt-get dist-upgrade and CPAN broke.  The 
> error occurs when CPAN downloads the repository index.  It appears 
> to be in this package, or another perl/zlib package that cpan uses.
> 
> The workaround is:
> 
> 1. apt-get clean
> 2. apt-get install --reinstall libcompress-zlib-perl
> 
> running cpan then works as expected.

I don't quite understand. You say both that the new version breaks 
cpan and that reinstalling it fixes it. The package has no postinst 
whatsoever so I can't imagine what did reinstalling do.

Can you provide a recipe for reproducing the problem?

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