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[Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We now have the Debian work for this in utopic:

perl (5.20.0-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * Move @INC to multiarch enabled paths. (See #748380)
    + provide perlapi-5.20.0-exp1 for now (and set $Config{debian_abi}
      accordingly), because @INC might still change.
    + break libalien-wxwidgets-perl, libjcode-perl, and libanyevent-perl,
      which use /usr/lib/perl5 without a dependency on perlapi-* or the
      current perl version.
  * debian/rules: clean: no need to remove DB_File .bak files anymore.
  * Include the ABI version in the vendorarch directory.
    (See https://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2014/05/msg00139.html)
    + solves the problem with dual life modules in perl-base (Closes: #743690)
    + libscalar-list-utils-perl can be made installable again (Closes: #725899)
    + no need for the ABI skew induced Build-Conflicts anymore
  * Make perl Multi-Arch:allowed and perl-modules Multi-Arch:foreign.
    (See https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg00058.html)
    (Closes: #717881)

 -- Niko Tyni <ntyni@xxxxxxxxxx>  Sat, 31 May 2014 14:17:12 +0300

I expect it will take us a while to work out the general parameters of
how to use this effectively, but the basic support is now there and
evolving the rest will be much easier now.

(Note that the test proposed in comment #8 does not make sense.  perl-
base's main function is to install /usr/bin/perl, and you can only have
one of those.)

** Changed in: perl (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

** Changed in: perl (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017603

Title:
  perl needs to be multiarch

Status in “perl” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “perl” source package in Precise:
  Won't Fix
Status in “perl” source package in Quantal:
  Won't Fix
Status in “perl” source package in Raring:
  Won't Fix
Status in “perl” source package in Saucy:
  Won't Fix
Status in “perl” source package in Trusty:
  Won't Fix
Status in “perl” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Perl really is the poster-child package for multiarch (i.e. foreign)
  support isn't it?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: perl 5.14.2-6ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Jun 25 13:05:16 2012
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: perl
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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