Bug#787310: perl-base: Dependency conflict on multiarch

[OmegaPhil]

Thankyou for this information - I escaped this upgrade hell by killing
off just libsane:i386 (I didn't need to do any other purging etc) and
then full-upgrading. I'm in control of my system again!


On 07/07/15 16:03, Leszek Godlewski wrote:
> Hi Niko,
> 
> Just letting you know I was able to resolve this by purging the perl i386
> packages with dpkg and removing libsane:i386, which (indirectly) caused the
> dependency on i386 perl in the first place and which I don't need. My
> system remains functional after this change and I was able to successfully
> run an aptitude full-upgrade.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Leszek
> 
> niedz., 31.05.2015 o 17:24 użytkownik Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> napisał:
> 
>> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:04:38AM +0000, Leszek Godlewski wrote:
>>
>>> In that case I will try to live with this conflict for a while longer and
>>> hope for a resolution by 5.22. Or maybe I could grab the packages from
>>> experimental? It's a home workstation, not a production server, so I
>> guess
>>> unless there are severe bugs I could tolerate the instability.
>>
>> Unfortunately the 5.22 packages alone aren't really fit for anything else
>> than a chroot for experimenting. All binary Perl modules need a rebuild
>> between Perl versions, and there isn't a way to provide such an overlay
>> currently. So much of your system would suddenly become uninstallable,
>> unless you rebuild those packages yourself.
>>
>>> I was simply updating from an older version of testing. It's been several
>>> weeks since the last update, though, probably more than a month.
>>
>> That's weird. I just tried an upgrade from stable on amd64 with a few
>> i386 packages installed, which should be pretty close to that, with no
>> problems, so I suppose it's some specific combination of packages that
>> breaks it.
>>
>> I expect there's a way out of your current situation, but I'm not really
>> an expert on that part. I'd expect it to work with apt-get (rather than
>> aptitude) and removing a few packages, but it sounded like you've already
>> tried that.
>>
>> You might want to try the debian-user list for help.
>> --
>> Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org
>>
> 


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