Bug#1043278: libshumate-dev: file conflict in Multi-Arch package

[Matthias Geiger]

On 09.08.23 11:29, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Aug 2023 at 10:37:40 +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote:
>> On 08.08.23 20:04, Simon McVittie wrote:
>>> What are the differences between the mips64el content and the others?
>> How can I do that ?
> Download the mips64el .deb, download the .deb for one of the other
> architectures (for example amd64), unpack, diff the GIR files (they're
> XML text).
sorry, tried to create a diff from the typelibs :(
>>> The long-term solution depends on what the per-architecture differences
>>> actually are.
>> I'd like to fix it properly.
> So would I, but if the differences reflect a genuine difference in
> content between the architectures, the long-term solution requires
> work that I have been doing in gobject-introspection to give it an
> architecture-specific search path element for GIR XML, which requires
> some relatively delicate upstream-politics, because one of the main
> upstream maintainers doesn't like multiarch or multilib and believes
> they are unnecessary.
>
> It's on my list, but my list is not short, and handing it off to a new
> contributor who would need to catch up with the situation seems like it
> will make upstream more likely to lose patience and block the whole thing.
Ok. diff included, I'll remove the MA: same annotation for now.


Matthias

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