reassign 1077235 nautilus-wipe found 1077235 nautilus-wipe/0.4.alpha2-1 retitle 1077235 nautilus-wipe fails to coinstall severity 1077235 serious user [email protected] usertags 1077235 fileconflict thanks
On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 09:25:26AM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > > as said in the title, and unless I'm mistaken, libexec directory > > contains executables, not libraries, so it shouldn't trigger > > arch-dependent-file-not-in-arch-specific-directory, just like *bin/. > > Clément, I think you are talking about "nautilus-wipe" package here which is > the only one I could find in > the UDD triggering this, and you happen to maintain it. > > This hint is triggered only if the M-A is found for the package to be "same", > which is the case here[1]. > > The M-A wiki here [2] says: > > "The package is Architecture: any, does not contain any maintainer scripts, > and common files for any pair of architectures have the same content." Fortunately, the authorative source no longer is the wiki, but Debian policy section 5.6.34.3 and nautilus-wipe violates this policy. > which I don't think will happen for usr/libexec. The M-A hinter on the PTS > also says the same about > this package: > > "There are issues with the multiarch metadata for this package. > nautilus-wipe conflicts on /usr/libexec/nautilus-wipe on any two of amd64, > arm64, armhf, i386 and 3 more" > > Hence, I think this bug report is a wontfix for lintian. Yes. > Helmut, would you be able to confirm if my interpretation is correct here? It is a plain packaging error. nautilus-wipe must not install /usr/libexec/nautilus-wipe as an architecture-dependent file and declare Multi-Arch: same at the same time. I'm not quite seeing the benefit of having Multi-Arch: same on nautilus extensions in general. A typical user will install nautilus for one and only one architecture and that'll be the one and only architecture an extension is useful for. Dropping Multi-Arch: same looks like the simple and useful solution here. As Nilesh pointed out, doing so will make the lintian warning go away. Helmut
