I've been able to reproduce this same issue on my new laptop with only perl and modules in the dependency chain.
I just installed it with squeeze, then decided I wanted to upgrade since my graphics card isn't well supported under 2.6.32. Initially the failing package set was much larger, but I was able to install a bunch of stuff by hand and get it down to just this list. I almost wonder if the issue could be related to the virtual "perlapi-5.10.1" versus "perlapi-5.12.4" packages? The odd-looking "libsnmp15" is because it apparently includes perl modules or embeds perl or something. Cheers, Kyle Moffett Upgrading: perl perl-base perl-modules libcairo-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libfont-freetype-perl libglib-perl libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl libgtk2-perl libhtml-parser-perl liblocale-gettext-perl libnet-dbus-perl libpango-perl libsnmp15 libsub-name-perl libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libuuid-perl libxml-parser-perl Removing: libperl5.10 Installing: libclass-isa-perl libperl5.12 libpod-plainer-perl libswitch-perl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org