Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes:

> On Mar 01, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> The situation with refcounting seems much less fragile than the situation
>> without refcounting to me.
> I totally agree.
>
> Also, why does refcounting have to be "perfect"?
> What would break if it did not actually check that the two files 
> provided by the same package for different architectures are identical?

Everything that can go wrong when splitting packages. You would loose
the stability advantage.

MfG
        Goswin