Bug#943811: perl:any is possible the following way and I suggest doing this

[mdasoh kyaeppd]

Package: perl
Version: 5.30.0-8
Severity: important

Having seen perl:any wane in use, I suggest bringing it back with the following measures:
in perl's control stanza:
Provides: perl:any (= 5.30.0-8)
in perl-base's control stanza:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Provides: perl-base:any (= 5.30.0-8), perlapi-5.30.0:any
in a package's control stanza which currently Depends: perl:any
Multi-Arch: foreign
Depends: perl:any (>= 5.30.0-8), perlapi-5.30.0:any

I have it working this way locally
please respond with your thoughts or opinions.

sincerely,
        - Mdasoh Kyaeppd.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.16.13 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii  dpkg               1.19.7
ii  libperl5.30        5.30.0-8
ii  perl-base          5.30.0-8
ii  perl-modules-5.30  5.30.0-9

Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii  netbase  5.4

Versions of packages perl suggests:
ii  libb-debug-perl            1.26-1
ii  liblocale-codes-perl       3.61-1
ii  libterm-readline-gnu-perl  1.36-2+b1
ii  make                       4.2.1-1.1
pn  perl-doc                   <none>

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