I'm trying to understand *why* a package was downgraded:
I was installing Bricolage that depends on a bunch of Perl
modules, one of which is libclass-container-perl.
In debian sid there is:
$ apt-cache show libclass-container-perl | grep Filename
Filename:
pool/main/libc/libclass-container-perl/libclass-container-perl_0.07-1_all.deb
Note the version. But Bricolage install says it needs a newer version:
Checking that Class::Container version is >= 0.09... not ok.
Ok, so I grab the latest version from CPAN (Class-Container-0.10.tar.gz)
and use dh-make-perl and it creates this .deb:
libclass-container-perl_0.1-1_all.deb
Notice that the version number is now 0.10. After installing I've got
trouble:
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libhtml-mason-perl: Depends: libclass-container-perl (>= 0.07-1) but 0.1-1 is to
be installed
libmodule-build-perl: Depends: libarchive-tar-perl (>= 1.0.0) but it is not going
to be installed
Depends: libextutils-parsexs-perl (>= 2.02) but it is not
going to be installed
So, I follow the advice and it looks like the package is *downgraded*.
$ apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libclass-container-perl
The following packages will be upgraded
libclass-container-perl
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/24.4kB of archives.
After unpacking 49.2kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 90973 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libclass-container-perl 0.1-1 (using
.../libclass-container-perl_0.07-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libclass-container-perl ...
Setting up libclass-container-perl (0.07-1) ...
So why did dpkg *downgrade* form 0.10 to 0.07?
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