Package: gcc-5-base Version: 5.3.0-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
a conflict between changelog.Debian.gz on i386 and amd64 breaks multiarch. Note also that libstdc++6 depends on gcc-5-base so removing one arch breaks all C++ applications for that arch. Result of "apt-get dist-upgrade": [...] Preparing to unpack .../gcc-5-base_5.3.0-3_amd64.deb ... De-configuring gcc-5-base:i386 (5.2.1-27) ... Unpacking gcc-5-base:amd64 (5.3.0-3) over (5.2.1-27) ... Preparing to unpack .../gcc-5-base_5.3.0-3_i386.deb ... Unpacking gcc-5-base:i386 (5.3.0-3) over (5.2.1-27) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/gcc-5-base_5.3.0-3_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/gcc-5-base/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package gcc-5-base:i386 [...] Kind regards, Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)