Package: perl-base
Version: 5.38.2-3.1
Severity: serious
X-Debbugs-Cc: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

On i386, perl-base provides perlapi-5.38.2t64 rather than
perlapi-5.38.2. This makes tons of packages uninstallable or
unbuildable and is not what has been agreed upon in #1060246.

The reason is a bad check in debian/rules, line 31:

,----
| # If nonempty, this will determine $Config{debian_abi} and Provides: entries | # (otherwise, the Provides: entries will be generated by debian/mkprovides)
| perlabi =
| ifeq (,$(filter $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE),i386 hurd-i386))
| ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS),32)
| perlabi = 5.38.2t64
| endif
| endif
`----

Unfortunately DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE does not match i386 or hurd-i386 on
these architectures:

,----
| $ dpkg-architecture -ai386 -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE 2>/dev/null
| i686-linux-gnu
| $ dpkg-architecture -ahurd-i386 -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE 2>/dev/null
| i686-gnu
`----

You may want to filter on DEB_HOST_ARCH instead (make sure it is
defined). A quick fix would be appreciated, because reverse
dependencies are likely going to pick up the wrong perlapi Provides.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

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Bug #1065483 [perl-base] perl-base: should provide perlapi-5.38.2 on i386
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