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

[Frank Earl]

Did some deeper digging after reporting the three issues in question:

fearl at fearl-Precision-M6600:~$ apt-cache madison perl-base
 perl-base |   5.18.1-4 | http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-toolchain-r/test/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages
 perl-base | 5.14.2-21build1 | http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages
      perl | 5.14.2-21build1 | http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main Sources
      perl |   5.18.1-4 | http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-toolchain-r/test/ubuntu/ saucy/main Sources

Seems that I'm getting hosed up by a PPA I didn't know was in the mix
there and I'll be taking it up with THEM.  Sorry about the false alarm.
Didn't know about the above call to diagnose what the hell was going on
for all the years I've been doing Ubuntu/Debian and Embedded Linux.

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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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