Bug#915027: libxft-dev should be installable for multiple architectures simultaneously

[Davy Durham <ddurham@davyandbeth.com>]

To be completely transparent, I did this on Ubuntu 16.04, but the 
package has not been changed significantly that I can see.  So, that's odd

I got the error when running "apt-get install libxft-dev:i386 
libxft-dev:amd64" which gives the conflict error.  If I run "dpkg -i 
libxft-dev_2.3.2-1_amd64.deb libxft-dev_2.3.2-1_i386.deb" it will look 
like it installs both, but the install of i386 silently replaces the 
amd64, and running a dpkg --list would show only i386 as installed.

That's probably basic for you, but that is what I am seeing. Does that 
information change anything in your testing?


On 11/29/2018 11:08 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Control: tags -1 unreproducible
>
> On 2018-11-29 10:16 -0600, Davy Durham wrote:
>
> > Package: libxft-dev
> > Version: 2.3.2-2
> >
> > Attempting to install libxft-dev for amd64 and i386 at the same time
> > (or any other arch for that matter) gives an error that they
> > conflict.
> Not for me, I can coinstall libxft-dev:amd64 and libxft-dev:i386 just
> fine.
>
> > This is because the "Package: libxft-dev"section of the
> > debian/control file does not contain "Multi-arch: same" (see
> > https://wiki.debian.org/MultiArch/Hints#set_Multi-Arch:_same)which
> > says that any duplicate files between the two different architectures
> > is fine.
> That's already the case:
>
> ,----
> | $ aptitude show libxft-dev | grep -E Multi-Arch
> | Multi-Arch: same
> `----
>
> > P.S. The same bug could be filed for libxi-dev, libxtst-dev, (these
> > two also affect me) and probably many of the other x dev packages.
> > Let me know if you want me to file separate bug reports for those.
> Most definitely not, libxi-dev and libxtst-dev are also already
> "Multi-Arch: same".
>
> My hunch is that you are running unstable and there might be a version
> skew for some dependency package (libc6-dev, maybe?) which prevents you
> from installing both libxft-dev:amd64 and libxft-dev:i386.  If that is
> the case, please retry after the next mirror push.
>
> Cheers,
>         Sven