Bug#787310: perl-base: Dependency conflict on multiarch

[Leszek Godlewski]

Hi Niko,

Just letting you know I was able to resolve this by purging the perl i386
packages with dpkg and removing libsane:i386, which (indirectly) caused the
dependency on i386 perl in the first place and which I don't need. My
system remains functional after this change and I was able to successfully
run an aptitude full-upgrade.

Regards,

Leszek

niedz., 31.05.2015 o 17:24 użytkownik Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> napisał:

> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:04:38AM +0000, Leszek Godlewski wrote:
>
> > In that case I will try to live with this conflict for a while longer and
> > hope for a resolution by 5.22. Or maybe I could grab the packages from
> > experimental? It's a home workstation, not a production server, so I
> guess
> > unless there are severe bugs I could tolerate the instability.
>
> Unfortunately the 5.22 packages alone aren't really fit for anything else
> than a chroot for experimenting. All binary Perl modules need a rebuild
> between Perl versions, and there isn't a way to provide such an overlay
> currently. So much of your system would suddenly become uninstallable,
> unless you rebuild those packages yourself.
>
> > I was simply updating from an older version of testing. It's been several
> > weeks since the last update, though, probably more than a month.
>
> That's weird. I just tried an upgrade from stable on amd64 with a few
> i386 packages installed, which should be pretty close to that, with no
> problems, so I suppose it's some specific combination of packages that
> breaks it.
>
> I expect there's a way out of your current situation, but I'm not really
> an expert on that part. I'd expect it to work with apt-get (rather than
> aptitude) and removing a few packages, but it sounded like you've already
> tried that.
>
> You might want to try the debian-user list for help.
> --
> Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org
>
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