On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:05:06 -0300, Rodrigo Fresneda wrote:

> Cannot install the package because it depends on perlapi-5.10.1,

Like hundreds of other perl packages ...

> which is not installable, but is a virtual package provided by perl-base.

And perl-base is an essential package, which means
(1) it should be present on any Debian system;
(2) it's not declared as a runtime dependency.


> ii  perl-base                     5.12.3-4   minimal Perl system
> pn  perlapi-5.10.1                <none>     (no description available)

You are running perl(-base) from experimental, so running (arch:any)
packages built against perl 5.10* won't work.


Cheers,
gregor
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