Source: nfs-ganesha Version: 6.5-3+b1 Severity: serious Justification: may cause an unpack error from dpkg
Hi, the use of Multi-Arch in nfs-ganesha is wrong on multiple accounts. Multi-Arch: foreign says that the interface provided to other packages is architecture-independent. However, nfs-ganesha is able to load plugins packages in nfs-ganesha-* as shared libraries via dlopen. This is an architecture-dependent interface. nfs-ganesha must not be marked Multi-Arch: foreign. It is a prime example where Multi-Arch: allowed is appropriate. The actual plugins also wrongly use Multi-Arch. The generation of manual pages is not reproducible across architectures. Therefore the manual page is architecture-dependent. As it also uses an architecture-indepent path, this may cause an unpack error from dpkg when attempting to coinstall plugins. Such an installation failure is a release-critical bug. nfs-ganesha-gluster * /usr/share/man/man8/ganesha-gluster-config.8.gz nfs-ganesha-gpfs * /usr/share/man/man8/ganesha-gpfs-config.8.gz nfs-ganesha-proxy-v4 * /usr/share/man/man8/ganesha-proxy-v4-config.8.gz nfs-ganesha-rgw * /usr/share/man/man8/ganesha-rgw-config.8.gz nfs-ganesha-vfs * /usr/share/man/man8/ganesha-vfs-config.8.gz Since they are to be loaded into nfs-ganesha and there can only be one nfs-ganesha at a time, Multi-Arch: same does not support any practical use case. Rather than improving the generation of manual pages, I recommand dropping Multi-Arch from these packages. For nfs-ganesha itself, I think the safe answer for trixie is to also drop Multi-Arch. Multi-Arch: allowed is also ok, but may not be the best solution, because the only architecture-dependent use of nfs-ganesha may be internal via its plugins. An alternative here (not for trixie) would be to create an alibi package nfs-ganesha-plugin-abi that happens to be Arch:any + M-A:no such that nfs-ganesha and all plugins depend on. Doing so ensures that they're all installed for the same architecture. Then nfs-ganesha itself may become M-A:foreign again arguing that use of the plugin interface requires a dependency on nfs-ganesha-plugin-abi. TL;DR: Please drop all Multi-Arch headers except for nfs-ganesha-doc. Helmut
