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

[Simon McVittie]

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).

> > 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.

    smcv