Pinging this bug, any progress? It is blocking crossgrading with GNOME
installed (affects python3-pil and python3-cairo).
On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 22:38:22 +0300 Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote:
> The correct approach is actually to disallow py{,3}compile in
> Multi-Arch: same packages.
>
> It does not even make much sense since it is not possible to install
> multiple architectures of the python interpreter at the same time,
> and in normal cases the package could just be binary-all.
>
> gir1.2-ibus-1.0 is a bit special for that, and the approach taken for
> that is to have no byte-compilation (and no python dependencies).
>
> The latter is not perfect, but seems to be acceptable for a very
> special situation (the python module is an optional part of an
> architecture-specific package). If anything should be improved
> on that, the python module should be split out of the package.
>
> cu
> Adrian
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Best,
Kevin
