Debcheck on unifont-bin reports "Package has a Depends on perl:any which cannot be satisfied" for several architectures; see https://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=testing&package=unifont:
-------------- begin ----------------- Package has a Depends on perl:any which cannot be satisfied on mipsel. Package has a Depends on perl:any which cannot be satisfied on s390x. Package has a Depends on perl:any which cannot be satisfied on armel. Package has a Depends on perl:any which cannot be satisfied on armhf. Package has a Depends on perl:any which cannot be satisfied on powerpc. Package has a Depends on perl:any which cannot be satisfied on i386. Package has a Depends on perl:any which cannot be satisfied on amd64. Package has a Depends on perl:any which cannot be satisfied on mips. Package has a Depends on perl:any which cannot be satisfied on ppc64el. Package has a Depends on perl:any which cannot be satisfied on arm64. --------------- end ----------------- Here is the unifont-bin debian/control file entry in the unifont package https://sources.debian.net/src/unifont/1:9.0.03-1/debian/control/): -------------- begin ----------------- Package: unifont-bin Section: x11 Priority: extra Architecture: any Depends: xfonts-utils, fontforge, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, libwx-perl, libgd-perl | libgd-gd2-perl | libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl Suggests: unifont, texinfo Description: utilities for manipulating GNU Unifont etc. --------------- end ----------------- The Perl Policy Manual, section 4.4.3 recommends using "${perl:Depends}", which I do (https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-module_packages.html). The pdebuild log shows that dh_perl is invoked. The piuparts page reports unifont-bin as "Successfully Tested" (https://piuparts.debian.org/stretch/state-successfully-tested.html#unifont-bin): -------------- begin ----------------- unifont-bin (Paul Hardy <[email protected]>) dependency xfonts-utils is successfully-tested dependency fontforge is successfully-tested dependency libc6 is successfully-tested dependency perl is successfully-tested dependency libwx-perl is successfully-tested dependency libgd-perl is successfully-tested alternative dependency libgd-gd2-perl is virtual provider libgd-perl is successfully-tested alternative dependency libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl is virtual provider libgd-perl is successfully-tested --------------- end ----------------- Does anyone know what is causing this Debcheck message, and how can it be fixed? Thank you, Paul Hardy
