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Re: Multi-Arch: same and WHEEL files

From Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.maint.python
Subject Re: Multi-Arch: same and WHEEL files
Date 2025-01-08 22:10 +0100
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On Wed, 8 Jan 2025, Matthias Klose wrote:

> On 08.01.25 21:36, Scott Talbert wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Jan 2025, Soren Stoutner wrote:
>> 
>>> Python3-hid was marked `Multi-Arch: same` by a previous maintainer. 
>>> Recently,
>>> tracker.debian.org warned that there is an issue because the WHEEL file is
>>> different in each package.
>>> 
>>> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-hidapi
>>> 
>>> The differences are in the `tag` field in the WHEEL file.  For example, 
>>> amd64
>>> has:
>>> 
>>> Tag: cp312-cp312-linux_x86_64
>>> 
>>> While arm64 has:
>>> 
>>> Tag: cp312-cp312-linux_aarch64
>>> 
>>> What is the recommended way to deal with this?\
>>> 
>>> 1.  Should the package not be marked `Multi-Arch: same`?
>>> 
>>> 2.  Should I prevent the binary package from shipping the WHEEL file?
>>> 
>>> 3.  Is there some other recommendation?
>> 
>> It seems like this package probably should just not be marked Multi- Arch: 
>> same.  The WHEEL file is likely important metadata.
>
> but why would we ship wheel files in the first place?

In this case Soren's talking about the WHEEL file in the dist-info 
directory, not a .whl file.

Scott

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Multi-Arch: same and WHEEL files Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2025-01-08 21:10 +0100
  Re: Multi-Arch: same and WHEEL files Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> - 2025-01-08 21:50 +0100
    Re: Multi-Arch: same and WHEEL files Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> - 2025-01-08 22:10 +0100
    Re: Multi-Arch: same and WHEEL files Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2025-01-08 22:10 +0100
    Re: Multi-Arch: same and WHEEL files Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2025-01-08 23:50 +0100

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