Bug#869351: liblocale-gettext-perl: Incorrect dependency (perlapi-5.24.1) breaks keyboard-configuration, xserver-xorg-core

[Rhys Owen]

Package: liblocale-gettext-perl
Version: 1.07-3+b2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

Upgrading to sid causes xorg to be removed due to an unresolvable dependency "you have held broken packages"
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  xserver-xorg-core : Depends: keyboard-configuration but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

>  keyboard-configuration : Depends: liblocale-gettext-perl but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

>  liblocale-gettext-perl : PreDepends: perlapi-5.24.1 but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I notice that this package seems to be provided by perl-base, which was recently installed.

The following fake package fixes this issue:
[perlapi-fake/DEBIAN/control]
Package: perlapi-fake
Version: 0.0.1
Section: perl
Priority: optional
Architecture: all
Depends: perl-base
Provides: perlapi-5.24.1
Suggests:
Conflicts:
Maintainer: Tom Owen <tom at cyberdemon>
Description: Fake perlapi package - this is provided by perl-base now


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

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages liblocale-gettext-perl depends on:
ii  libc6                          2.24-12
ii  perl-base                      5.26.0-4
ii  perlapi-fake [perlapi-5.24.1]  0.0.1

liblocale-gettext-perl recommends no packages.

liblocale-gettext-perl suggests no packages.

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