freeradius 3.2.8 on debian 13 Trixie Depends libperl5.36 (>= 5.36.0) while libperl5.40/stable,now 5.40.1-6 amd64 is installed

[Joost Ringoot]

Hi,

In Debian 13, the stable freeradius is  3.2.7 and no update in the backports
On the https://www.freeradius.org/ website, the recommended stable version  is 3.2.8

There is a repo for debian 12 and for ubuntu 24.04 on 
https://packages.inkbridgenetworks.com/#fr32-debian-bookworm
https://packages.inkbridgenetworks.com/#fr32-ubuntu-noble

The procedure looks identical.

I tried that procedure
https://packages.inkbridgenetworks.com/#fr32-debian-bookworm

root at radius:/etc/apt# apt install freeradius
Solving dependencies... Error!  
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Unsatisfied dependencies:
 freeradius : Depends: libperl5.36 (>= 5.36.0) but it is not installable
              Depends: libfreeradius3 (= 3.2.8-2) but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: freeradius-utils but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: freeradius-python3 but it is not going to be installed
Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional context:
   Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
   1. freeradius:amd64=3.2.8-2 is selected for install
   2. freeradius:amd64=3.2.8-2 Depends libperl5.36 (>= 5.36.0)
      but none of the choices are installable:
      [no choices]
root at radius:/etc/apt# 


root at radius:/etc/apt#  apt search libperl5
libperl5.40/stable,now 5.40.1-6 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  shared Perl library

root at radius:/etc/apt# 

I am now considering: what would be the best option: 

1. install radius 3.2.7 on debian trixie from it's standard repository
2. install debian 12 and try to install radius 3.2.8 from the inkbridge repo
3. try to fool the 3.2.8 inkbridge  debian package into  believing that the installed libperl5.40 is  libperl5.36
4. try to install freeradius 3.2.8 from the tgz on https://www.freeradius.org/releases/ on debian trixie 13

What do you suggest? Any issues that you had?

Best regards,

Joost