* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> the offending file, but then it errored out saying that gmc
John> depended on "perl5" and that "perl5" was not installed. What is
John> that all about. It is a stable slink system with perl5.00404
John> installed in /usr/bin with symlinks in /usr/local/bin to "perl"
You have the package perl, version 5.004-blah installed, not the
package perl5 (which is actually only a virtual package, provided by
the various flavours of the perl-5.00x packages.
Why do I need perl5 again.. Ah, yes convert-metadata.db needs it.
Reorganisation of the perl packages is one of the things in potato
that make rebuilding packages not that easy.
You can either change debian/control to depend on perl instead of
perl5 and rebuild it, or you can --force-depends the existing package,
but I think dpkg, apt and dselect will bitch about the missing perl5
package, so the first alternative is the better way.
Ciao,
Martin
