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

[Leszek Godlewski]

Package: perl-base
Version: 5.20.2-6
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I was trying to normally aptitude full-upgrade my system (Debian testing amd64
w/i386 multiarch), when I was met with a dependency conflict:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 perl-base : Conflicts: perl-base:i386 but 5.20.2-6 is to be installed.
 perl-base:i386 : Conflicts: perl-base but 5.20.2-6 is installed.
 libperl5.20 : Conflicts: libperl5.20:i386 but 5.20.2-6 is to be installed.
 libperl5.20:i386 : Conflicts: libperl5.20 but 5.20.2-6 is installed.
Unable to resolve dependencies!  Giving up...

I've made several attempts at fixing this manually (i.e. removing and
reinstalling the packages manually with dpkg), but the conflict prevails. It
would appear to me that the package conflict definitions are overly generic and
make an update impossible.

Regards,

Leszek



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages perl-base depends on:
ii  dpkg   1.17.25
ii  libc6  2.19-18

perl-base recommends no packages.

Versions of packages perl-base suggests:
ii  perl  5.20.2-6

-- no debconf information