On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 08:36:59PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Am 03.05.2008 um 20:05 schrieb Adrian Bunk: > > > What fails is the update-alternatives invocation in irssi's prerm. > > That's because liblocale-gettext-perl was still the old version linked > against perlapi-5.8.*, this causes the symbol lookup error. The new > version had not been unpacked yet.
No, it's the other way around. The new liblocale-gettext-perl is unpacked but perl-base isn't yet. The problem is that while Dpkg::Gettext (and Debconf::Gettext for that matter) do the right thing with an "eval 'use Locale::gettext'", the error (presumably from dlopen()) isn't caught: # perl -le 'eval "use Locale::gettext"; print "got: $@" if $@; exit 0'; echo $? perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Locale/gettext/gettext.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Istack_sp_ptr 127 No fix yet, but the only way out I see is having some package(s?) pre-depend on the new perl-base. Fixing the eval/dlopen interaction in perl is out of the question because this is happening when the old perl-base version is still installed. Any help and ideas welcome. -- Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
