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

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 02:10:58PM +0300, Vlad Orlov wrote:
 
> > 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

Right, that's not going to work. We're still quite far from getting Perl
module packages to be installable for foreign architectures. This is
blocked on the 'multiarch interpreter' problem. See the links mentioned
earlier in this bug; I'm not aware of any recent progress on this front.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org