Bug#717881: perl-modules: Please convert perl-modules to multiarch

[Francois Gouget]

Package: perl-modules
Version: 5.14.2-21
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Currently perl-modules is not multiarch. However given that it is
architecture all it can probably be made multiarch=foreign with
reasonably few changes.

That would simplify making the other packages that depend on perl-modules
multiarch as they would not have to change their dependencies.

As an interim workaround they could change their dependencies to
'perl-modules:all' which works with dpkg >= 1.16.5. However that's quite
ugly and should then be changed back.

To achieve full benefits it would likely be necessary to convert the
other perl packages to multiarch too. However I think this one can be
done independently and might even be quite sufficient in some cases
given that perl-base is essential and thus may be omitted from
dependencies.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perl-modules depends on:
ii  libclass-isa-perl  0.36-5
ii  libswitch-perl     2.16-2
ii  perl               5.14.2-21

perl-modules recommends no packages.

Versions of packages perl-modules suggests:
ii  libpod-plainer-perl  1.03-1

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