Hi,
> 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
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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:
libqtcore4-perl:i386 : Depends: libperl5.22:i386 (>= 5.22.1) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: perl:i386 (>= 5.22.1-1) but it is not going to
be installed
Depends: perlapi-5.22.1:i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get install perl:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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:
perl:i386 : Depends: perl-base:i386 (= 5.22.2-1) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: libperl5.22:i386 (= 5.22.2-1) but it is not going to be
installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
