On 08/26/2011 12:43 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > reassign 639290 apt > quit > > Hi again, > > Adam Heath wrote: > >> 639290 says that you can deconfigure perl. That is not possible. > > Why? I thought the whole point of having a separate perl and > perl-base is that perl is not essential. > > So as an intermediate state during an upgrade, it should be perfectly > fine to deconfigure perl or to upgrade it without immediately > configuring it.
How would you change the status in dpkg from Installed to Half-Installed(ie, deconfigure it)? I don't believe there is a way to do that, except by way of unpacking some version(any version). > Reassigning to APT. Please feel free to reassign back to libc6 or > perl when the problem is clearer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
