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

[Niko Tyni]

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.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org