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

Mdasoh Kyaeppd mingdaisung at gmail.com
Thu Oct 31 19:13:32 GMT 2019


I should add that, at least on my system: depending on package:any doesn't
work unless you Provide: package:any


On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 1:03 PM Mdasoh Kyaeppd <mingdaisung at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Would you rather pin this on multiarch-support?  Perl is an interpreter
> and can run code from other architectures.  Some packages do depend on
> perl:any.  Less of them do today than did several years ago, and that's
> because saying perl:any just plain doesn't work.  It doesn't work with
> debootstrap, and it doesn't work unless you say Multi-Arch: something.  Can
> we go back to using a more interoperable system?  It has to start
> somewhere, and in my experience, saying perl packages depend on the 32-bit
> perl, at least with my systems, seems to do.  I don't really know how to
> tell if some of those packages are doing their job.  I just know my main
> apps that depend on them are working.  Can you help me test some of them?
>
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