Bug#717882: perl-base: Please convert perl-base to multiarch

[Vlad Orlov]

Hi,

> Also, packages should normally depend on the full 'perl'
> package rather than perl-base (see the Perl policy).

Well, in my Debian Testing installation I've looked at a package that properly depends
on 'perl', not on 'perl-base', but it's indirectly affected by this issue anyway...

$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get install libqtcore4-perl:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libqtcore4-perl:i386 : Depends: libperl5.22:i386 (>= 5.22.1) but it is not going to be installed
                        Depends: perl:i386 (>= 5.22.1-1) but it is not going to be installed
                        Depends: perlapi-5.22.1:i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get install perl:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 perl:i386 : Depends: perl-base:i386 (= 5.22.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libperl5.22:i386 (= 5.22.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.