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

[Frank Earl]

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.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

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

[Frank Earl (linusti)]

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

fearl@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.

[Frank Earl (linusti)]

As an aside, there seems to be a handful of issues going on similar to this- there's probably a bunch of differing upstream projects screwing people up with the move to this without doing it right.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

As per Frank's comment #2 this is a PPA problem.