[3dprinter-general] Bug#1133406: Bug#1133406: python3-pynest2d fails to coinstall

[Gregor Riepl]

Hi Helmut,

> The question I have here is whether the cure is better than the disease
> here. If we simply remove the version, there is no flagging of different
> versions being used. Therefore, bugs can become subtly
> architecture-specific. This may make debugging them harder. We don't
> technically need the version information as it is recorded in the
> .buildinfo.
> 
> So another way to resolve this would be asking the release team for a
> binNMU with the expectation that such a version difference is rare.

I don't think we will lose much by removing the version comment and keeping the file as multi-arch=same.

If there's ever a situation where SIP generates different .pyi files (essentially a Python interface to the native library in this case) across different versions, it may actually indicate a real problem. The version comment alone doesn't really do that.

As for making debugging harder - I don't think this is much of an issue either.
Since pynest2d is a native library with a Python interface, it would need to be debugged on the target architecture or with qemu-user anyway.

Regards,
Gregor