Re: libdatetime-perl BD-Uninstallable although dependency is satisfied (?)

[Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org>]

On 2020-08-25 10:48, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:39:50AM +0300, Andrius Merkys wrote:
>> Buildd status page for libdatetime-perl [1] says that on kfreebsd-* its
>> build dependencies are uninstallable, citing the following dependency
>> tree (for kfreebsd-amd64, for example):
>>
>> libdatetime-perl build-depends on:
>> - libdatetime-locale-perl:kfreebsd-amd64 (>= 1:1.06)
>> libdatetime-locale-perl depends on:
>> - libnamespace-autoclean-perl:kfreebsd-amd64
>> libnamespace-autoclean-perl depends on:
>> - libnamespace-clean-perl:kfreebsd-amd64
>> libnamespace-clean-perl depends on:
>> - libsub-name-perl:kfreebsd-amd64
>> libsub-name-perl depends on missing:
>> - perlapi-5.28.1:kfreebsd-amd64
>>
>> libdatetime-locale-perl 1:1.26-1 is in unstable as arch:all, thus I do
>> not understand how can it be uninstallable. 
> A package can be present in unstable yet be uninstallable, or what do you
> mean? I didn't check if perlapi-5.28.1:kfreebsd-amd64 is indeed
> unavailable but it seems like a valid reason.

Indeed, libsub-name-perl:kfreebsd-amd64 was built in unstable using
perl, but since then perl FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64, thus
libsub-name-perl:kfreebsd-amd64 is uninstallable.

Thanks for pointing out!
Andrius