Debian perl old, perlmagick uninstallable

[Paul Szabo <psz () maths usyd edu au>]

[Wrote to the Debian perl and perlmagick maintainers a couple of days ago,
but no response. Maybe unrelated, but also no response to the ftpd bug
http://bugs.debian.org/384454 in a couple of weeks; and of course Debian
default permissions are broken as per policy after a couple of years,
http://bugs.debian.org/299007 and http://bugs.debian.org/384922. Is Debian
response going the way of Microsoft?]

Currently package perlmagick is uninstallable on stable/sarge, because perl
is old: I guess perl should be updated to 5.8.4-8sarge5 everywhere.

The file

http://security.debian.org/dists/sarge/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz

contains

> Package: perlmagick
> Version: 6:6.0.6.2-2.7
> Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-8sarge4) ...

though it only contains

> Package: perl
> Version: 5.8.4-8sarge3

I also note that

http://packages.debian.org/stable/perl/perl

shows just "Package: perl (5.8.4-8sarge5)", whereas

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=perl&searchon=names&version=stable&release=all

shows both 5.8.4-8sarge5 and 5.8.4-8sarge3.

Cheers,

Paul Szabo   psz () maths usyd edu au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

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