Dear Helmut, dear Johannes, thank you very much for your help, your investigations and your detailed description how you do this analysis - 30 minutes after I send the email.
I will make a new release with the „Multi-arch: same“ back. Fritz > Am 16.08.2020 um 09:01 schrieb Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de>: > > Hi Fritz, > > TL;DR: Just add m-a:same back. The problem has temporary nature. > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 08:29:57AM +0200, Friedrich Beckmann wrote: >> Hallo Helmut, >> >> the spread-sheet-widget package >> >> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/spread-sheet-widget >> >> installs these files: >> >> fritz@debian:~/s$ dpkg --contents libspread-sheet-widget_0.6-2_amd64.deb >> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2020-08-14 11:36 ./ >> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2020-08-14 11:36 ./usr/ >> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2020-08-14 11:36 ./usr/lib/ >> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2020-08-14 11:36 ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ >> -rw-r--r-- root/root 133032 2020-08-14 11:36 >> ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libspread-sheet-widget.so.0.0.0 >> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2020-08-14 11:36 ./usr/share/ >> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2020-08-14 11:36 ./usr/share/doc/ >> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2020-08-14 11:36 >> ./usr/share/doc/libspread-sheet-widget/ >> -rw-r--r-- root/root 515 2020-08-14 11:36 >> ./usr/share/doc/libspread-sheet-widget/changelog.Debian.gz >> -rw-r--r-- root/root 3641 2020-08-13 07:00 >> ./usr/share/doc/libspread-sheet-widget/changelog.gz >> -rw-r--r-- root/root 1095 2020-08-13 09:54 >> ./usr/share/doc/libspread-sheet-widget/copyright >> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2020-08-14 11:36 ./usr/share/info/ >> -rw-r--r-- root/root 3107 2020-08-14 11:36 >> ./usr/share/info/spread-sheet-widget.info.gz >> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2020-08-14 11:36 ./usr/share/lintian/ >> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2020-08-14 11:36 >> ./usr/share/lintian/overrides/ >> -rw-r--r-- root/root 58 2020-08-13 09:54 >> ./usr/share/lintian/overrides/libspread-sheet-widget >> lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2020-08-14 11:36 >> ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libspread-sheet-widget.so.0 -> >> libspread-sheet-widget.so.0.0.0 >> >> In version 0.6-1 the package was marked „Multi-arch: same“ but the hinter >> claimed that the info file >> >> /usr/share/info/spread-sheet-widget.info.gz >> >> was different on different architectures. Therefore I removed the Multi-arch >> tag. I am pretty sure that >> the info files are not architecture or build dependent so I wonder why this >> happens. I think they should >> not be marked as „file conflict“ in https://wiki.debian.org/MultiArch/Hints > > Thank you for contacting me about this. The original hint was: > > | libspread-sheet-widget conflicts on > /usr/share/info/spread-sheet-widget.info.gz on amd64 <-> arm64, armel, armhf, > and 5 more > > If you doubt the hinter's judgement, we can simply verify it. I went > ahead and downloaded the amd64 and arm64 instances of > libspread-sheet-widget versioned 0.6-2 and this is what I got: > > $ sha1sum */usr/share/info/spread-sheet-widget.info.gz > ef38b2ed6072dedcd454cf3fc40b68d2bde155bc > amd64/usr/share/info/spread-sheet-widget.info.gz > 3c7a0d05ec47d89ddb9fc0a77add5cfab2670b81 > arm64/usr/share/info/spread-sheet-widget.info.gz > $ > > So those files really are different. Coinstalling them results in an > unpack error. I agree that they shouldn't differ. > > We can use diffoscope to figure out what differs here: > > $ diffoscope */usr/share/info/spread-sheet-widget.info.gz > --- amd64/usr/share/info/spread-sheet-widget.info.gz > +++ arm64/usr/share/info/spread-sheet-widget.info.gz > ├── spread-sheet-widget.info > │ @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ > │ 00000000: 5468 6973 2069 7320 7370 7265 6164 2d73 This is spread-s > │ 00000010: 6865 6574 2d77 6964 6765 742e 696e 666f heet-widget.info > │ 00000020: 2c20 7072 6f64 7563 6564 2062 7920 6d61 , produced by ma > │ 00000030: 6b65 696e 666f 2076 6572 7369 6f6e 2036 keinfo version 6 > │ -00000040: 2e37 2066 726f 6d0a 7370 7265 6164 2d73 .7 from.spread-s > │ +00000040: 2e35 2066 726f 6d0a 7370 7265 6164 2d73 .5 from.spread-s > │ 00000050: 6865 6574 2d77 6964 6765 742e 7465 7869 heet-widget.texi > │ 00000060: 2e0a 0a54 6869 7320 6d61 6e75 616c 2069 ...This manual i > │ 00000070: 7320 666f 7220 474e 5520 5370 7265 6164 s for GNU Spread > │ 00000080: 2053 6865 6574 2057 6964 6765 7420 7665 Sheet Widget ve > │ 00000090: 7273 696f 6e20 302e 362e 0a0a 2020 2043 rsion 0.6... 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Such tool-induced differences happen from > time to time. The hinter only looks at what files differ, not how. This > is a limitation of the technique. If you just binNMU the package, the > difference should go away as texinfo has been built everywhere. > > Nevertheless, the difference in content makes coinstallation fail on > user systems. Therefore, I think it is useful to report. I'm not sure > whether I can address this in the hinter in a reasonable way beyond > mentioning it on the wiki page. > > Beyond this, I think the package should be named libspread-sheet-widget0 > to reflect on the soname. It also is a good idea to include > documentation in shared library packages, but the -dev or other packages > instead as most users will not interact with the package directly unless > they install the development package. > > Helmut
