[Bug 1746799] Re: Perl won't install because it depends on the wrong perl-base

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

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Could you check if this issue persists if you run `sudo apt update`?
Might be some package information which is slightly out of sync causing
this issue.

** Changed in: perl (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Tags added: unmetdeps xenial

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Title:
  Perl won't install because it depends on the wrong perl-base

Status in perl package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Pretty clean Xenial install on a Docker environment. I try installing
  apache2, which fails because it can't install perl. If I try to
  install perl:

  # apt-get install perl
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:

  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   perl : Depends: perl-base (= 5.22.1-9) but 5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2 is to be installed
          Recommends: netbase but it is not going to be installed
          Recommends: rename but it is not going to be installed
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

  # dpkg -l perl*
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name                              Version               Architecture          Description
  +++-=================================-=====================-=====================-=======================================================================
  un  perl                              <none>                <none>                (no description available)
  ii  perl-base                         5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2     amd64                 minimal Perl system
  un  perl-modules                      <none>                <none>                (no description available)
  un  perlapi-5.22.1                    <none>                <none>                (no description available)

  # cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep -v '^#'

  deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted
  deb-src http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted

  deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted
  deb-src http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted

  deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial universe
  deb-src http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial universe
  deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-updates universe
  deb-src http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-updates universe

  
  deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-security main restricted
  deb-src http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-security main restricted
  deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-security universe
  deb-src http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-security universe

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