Control: severity -1 serious On Tue, Sep 01, 2026 at 08:47:27AM +0200, Christian Klein wrote: > The latest upgrade broke installation of libpcre2-dev:i386 alongside > libpcre2-dev:amd64. > Building wine requires the packages installed. > > Unpacking libpcre2-dev:amd64 (10.48-1) over (10.46-1+b2)… > dpkg: error processing archive > /var/cache/apt/archives/libpcre2-dev_10.48-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite shared '/usr/bin/pcre2-config', which is different from > other instances of package libpcre2-dev:amd64 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libpcre2-dev_10.48-1_amd64.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Looking at pcre2-config, it now includes the architecture triplet, thus making > it no longer mutiarch installable. Older versions of the package shipped > without that extra case statement.
I've CCed Helmut for m-a advice. I think -dev packages do not necessarily need to be Multi-Arch: same. Maybe libpcre2-dev does to satisfy some m-a chain. If it does, then it must fulfill the property (thus adjusting severity). Maybe libpcre2-dev does not need to be M-A: same, then it can just drop that flag from d/control. Best, Chris
