Bug#717882: perl-base: Please convert perl-base to multiarch

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 01:20:09PM +0400, Vlad Orlov wrote:
> Isn't this fixed already in perl 5.20, just like
> https://bugs.debian.org/717881 ?

No, perl-base doesn't have a Multi-Arch annotation yet.

It's Essential:yes, so dependencies on it are generally left out
altogether. Also, packages should normally depend on the full 'perl'
package rather than perl-base (see the Perl policy). 

I don't think we want explicit dependencies on perl-base:any for
/usr/bin/perl; leaving out the dependency has the same effect. Perl
modules or programs needing modules from perl-base may be another
matter, but I'm not tackling that for this release.

I've been sort of neglecting these bugs, apologies for that.
As noted in the changelog of 5.20.0-1, there's some
background in the "thread" at
 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg00058.html

See also section 9.7 of
 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/08/msg00013.html

which gives a glimpse of the complex issues we're hitting with multiarch
in the interpreters context.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org