Re: Some perl packages not available in Debian mirrors.

On 2015-07-01 2:33, Marco Galicia wrote:
> While trying to build some debian lxc I noticed that some perl related
> packages failed to download. I tried changing mirrors and then
> verifying manually and i can say that some perl packages are missing
> in all the debian mirrors.
> 
> This can make a lot of installations of Debian to fail due to missing
> packages.
> 
> I have verified this for wheezy and jessie releases in amd54 and i386
> architectures.
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/liblocale-gettext-perl [1]
> 
> Packages not present in up to date repos.
> 
> liblocale-gettext-perl libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl
> libtext-wrapi18n-perl

How did you verify that these packages are apparently missing? A manual 
inspection of a mirror and a quick test fails to find any such issue:

adam@mowgli:~$ sudo apt-get install -d liblocale-gettext-perl 
--reinstall
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not 
upgraded.
Need to get 19.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main 
liblocale-gettext-perl amd64 1.05-8+b1 [19.0 kB]
Fetched 19.0 kB in 0s (164 kB/s)
Download complete and in download only mode

Regards,

Adam