Bug#808302: not installable on sid: Depends: perlapi-5.20.2 which is a virtual package and is not provided by any available package

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Package: libxml-libxml-perl
Version: 2.0123+dfsg-1
Severity: critical

Causes FTBFS of packages build-depending on this one thus critical.

in a clean docker looks like:

root at 306c98029745:/# apt-get install libxml-libxml-perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 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:
 libxml-libxml-perl : Depends: perl (>= 5.20.2-6) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libxml-namespacesupport-perl but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libxml-sax-perl but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-rc1+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libxml-libxml-perl depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.19-22
ii  libxml-namespacesupport-perl  1.11-1
ii  libxml-sax-perl               0.99+dfsg-2
ii  libxml2                       2.9.2+zdfsg1-4
ii  perl                          5.20.2-6
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.20.2]    5.20.2-6
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

libxml-libxml-perl recommends no packages.

libxml-libxml-perl suggests no packages.

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