(OK) perl change wants to remove many stuff

Unread post by **wayne** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:54 am

apt-cache policy perl
perl:
Installed: 5.14.2-21
Candidate: 5.18.1-2

it wants to remove 135 packages, including removing kernel...haha, I better just hold on and wait.

Unread post by **vic** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 2:32 pm

Yeah, apt-get wanted to remove a lot of stuff here too, maybe the weather is better tomorrow;)

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:22 pm

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apt-cache rdepends perl|more #or less or most

wa-hooo! :D Well, it wants to remove Amarok too, not bad then :D

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:57 am

Bumping this because it's severe. Don't dist-upgrade for a few days, it will pork your beef!

To get info on the perl transition, visit http://release.debian.org/transitions/ -> http://release.debian.org/transitions/h ... l5.18.html

Wait until our architectures are fully transitioned (other architectures might lag behind, so that the counter won't rise above 90% or so)

Unread post by **vic** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 3:21 pm

Dist-upgrade ok here now:)

Unread post by **gutterslob** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 5:13 pm

Same here. Just dist-upgraded on my 32bit VM install and everything went swimmingly. If I recall correctly, libperl5.14 is the only package removed, but there's a later version (5.18, I think) in it's place. So far, no issues with perl related software that I've noticed. Apt's still holding a xorg-core package. I assume it's waiting for a dependency to catch up in version number.

Haven't dist-upgraded on amd64 yet, but looking at the siduction forums, it seems to be all good on that architecture as well.

Unread post by **bones** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 5:23 pm

Just upgraded my 32-bit siduction LXDE, all seems well so far. Yup, libperl5.14 removed and replaced with libperl5.18 here, and xorg held.

Unread post by **wayne** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:48 pm

121 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/88.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 5,115 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
serious bugs of perl (5.14.2-21 -> 5.18.1-2) <unfixed>
#721364 - perl: Missing Pre-Depends/Breaks/Conflicts wrt. libscalar-list-utils-perl and the Perl 5.18 transition
Summary:
perl(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] ? LOL:

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 3:21 am

Looks OK now, except for mips and mipsel architectures. If you use Subversion (svn) hold back for a day or two, else we can regard the transition of the base perl as completed.

Unread post by **wayne** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 5:43 am

Well,
from bug report, the file is not even installed

# apt-cache policy libscalar-list-utils-perl
libscalar-list-utils-perl:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:1.27-1+b1

so i went ahead to d-u.
reboot, all seems ok

xserver-xorg-core is held back by debian maintainer, i guess

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Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  xserver-xorg-core
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

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