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Re: Multi-Arch: same and WHEEL files

From Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
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 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?

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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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