Comment 11 for bug 294134

Martin, this can be reproduced with the following steps:
- setup a fresh hardy system
- install the package postgresql-plperl-8.2 and it's dependencies
- Upgrade to Intrepid with 'update-manager -d'
and voilà.

The upgrade fails with the error :
2008-11-30 00:14:24,508 DEBUG The package 'postgresql-plperl-8.2' is marked for removal but it's in the removal blacklist
2008-11-30 00:14:29,716 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'A essential package would have to be removed'

This is not reproducible if postgresql-plperl-8.2 is not installed but postgresql-8.2 is.

I don't understand why you say that this has got nothing to do with postgresql because this is the presence of postgresql-plperl-8.2 that makes the upgrade fail ? Maybe my fix was too straightforward but what would be the correct solution ?

I've marked this report "Fix released" because the regex has been dropped in Jaunty, postgresql-8.2 is not available anymore and the issue is the upgrade of the system with plperl 8.2 installed.

Thank you in advance for your advice.

@Alexandr, this is not the same bug. Yours looks like bug 240724 . If you're not sure this is the same then file a new report with the file /var/log/dis-upgrade attached . Thank you