[Pkg-ayatana-devel] Bug#1133797: Bug#1133797: gir1.2-unity-7.0 fails to coinstall

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Helmut,

On  Di 14 Apr 2026 19:24:12 CEST, Helmut Grohne wrote:

> Package: gir1.2-unity-7.0
> Version: 7.1.4+19.04.20190319-6.1+b1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: violates Debian policy 5.6.34.3
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: fileconflict
>
> gir1.2-unity-7.0 is declared Multi-Arch: same, but fails to coinstall.
>
> The files
>  * /usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Unity-7.0.typelib
>  * /usr/lib/girepository-1.0/UnityExtras-7.0.typelib
> are shared by gir1.2-unity-7.0 version 7.1.4+19.04.20190319-6.1+b1 as
> present in trixie and version 7.1.4+19.04.20190319-6.1+b2 as present in
> forky|unstable with varying content.
>
> Please ensure that shared files have bit-identical content across
> architectures, move architecture-dependent files to
> architecture-dependent paths or remove the Multi-Arch: same field.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Helmut Grohne

my guess is that the libunity src:pkg where gir1.2-unity-7.0 stems  
from is not needed anymore in Debian, the entanglement is with  
evolution-plugins and that can probably be disentangled, too.

Instead of fixing this, I'd go for getting libunity src:pkg removed  
from Debian.

Mike
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