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

[Niko Tyni]

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 10:59:04AM +0200, Leszek Godlewski wrote:
> Package: perl-base
> Version: 5.20.2-6
> Severity: important
 
> 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...

Thanks for your report.

Multiarching the perl packages is very much work in progress, and will
be improved (but not finished) in the 5.22 packages in experimental.

I'm not sure how much we (as in Debian whole) promise wrt. multiarched
systems currently, but it certainly isn't broken on purpose.

However, this bug report isn't very actionable as-is. Were you upgrading
from stable or an older version of testing? Did such upgrades work for
you before? Have you tried with apt instead of aptitude?

I must note that unless there is an easy fix, I don't expect much to
happen in this area in unstable/testing before the 5.22 packages get there
(probably in a couple of months or so.)
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org