[Bug 1254180] Re: Numerous dependencies broken due to Perl packaging update on Nov 2.

[Dave Gilbert]

Hi Frank,
  Can you confirm the version of perl and the version of each of the broken packages that you're seeing?
And confirm that this is on a trusty box?  My understanding is that Saucy is still on 5.14.x, and it's just trusty that's
moved to 5.18.1.

  I seem to have libdbi-perl installed and I've got libpurple0
installed; so exactly which packages are broken.

ii  perl                                  5.18.1-4build1
amd64        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language


** Changed in: perl (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Numerous dependencies broken due to Perl packaging update on Nov 2.

Status in “perl” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Apparently someone thought it a good idea to push out a new update for
  Perl to 5.18.1 from 5.14.2 on November 2 of this year just days after
  13.10 was released to the world.

  Unfortunately, because whomever did this didn't think the thing
  through and get all dependent packages corrected and out into the
  repository, there are numerous differing packages that are just plain
  flat broken at this point in time.

  libdbi-perl
  libxml-libxml-perl
  libpurple

  Because of this, you can't install

  MySQL
  X2Go Server
  Pidgin

  Probably very many more application packages are hosed at this point
  in time.  I've already reported part of this in two other reports, but
  this is bad and they're all common so I'm merging them into this one.

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