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

[Leszek Godlewski]

Hi Niko,

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.

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.

Leszek

niedz., 31.05.2015 o 12:05 użytkownik Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> napisał:

> 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.)
> --
> Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org
>
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