Control: reassign -1 tumbler
Control: found -1 4.18.0-1
Control: retitle -1 tumbler fails to coinstall: trying to overwrite shared 
'/usr/lib/systemd/user/tumblerd.service'
Control: severity -1 serious
Control: affects -1 + crossgrader

Hi Magnus,

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 04:00:15AM +0000, mag...@autistici.org wrote:
> To test crossgrader I installed a standard Xfce Desktop system of
> Debian bookworm i386/i686 and used crossgrader following the
> "official" documentation:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/crossgrading-team/debian-crossgrading/-/blob/master/INSTRUCTIONS.md
> 
> 
> But during the second stage I got the following error regarding
> the package tumbler:
> 
>    Unpacking tumbler:amd64 (4.18.0-1) ...
>    dpkg: error processing archive
> /var/cache/apt/archives/tumbler_4.18.0-1_amd64.deb (--install):
>    trying to overwrite shared '/usr/lib/systemd/user/tumblerd.service',
> which is different from
>    other instances of package tumbler:amd64
> 
> 
> To work around this I used the following command:
> 
>    dpkg -i --force-overwrite
> /var/cache/apt/archives/tumbler_4.18.0-1_amd64.deb
> 
> 
> This worked but an `apt install --fix-missing' wanted to remove
> many packages. I executed the command anyway and installed the
> removed packages after. It worked.

It's a bug in tumbler as it declares to be coinstallable but actually is
not. Dropping "Multi-Arch: same" from tumbler is the simplest way of
resolving this. The problem is also reported by the multiarch hinter on
tracker.d.o and exists in both bookworm and sid.

Helmut

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