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[Theodore Ts'o <2117696@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In any case, this is a feature request that libext2fs-dev be a package
which supports multiarch.  There is significant, non-trivial work that
would be needed to support this, which is documented here:

https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation

If someone wants to send a clean, supportable patch, I'll take a look at
it as the Debian upstream maintainer.  However, my considered opinion is
that It's Not Worth it.  And I say this as someone who is regularly
building amd64, arch64, and i386 file system test appliances using an
amd64 build server, and I using build chroots.  If you think that the
extra time to build the amd64 binaries using qumu emulation (see the
setup-buildchroot script which will set that up automatically) is not
worth, consider how much $$$ it would cost to pay a software engineer to
make libext2fs-dev and related packages multi-arch capable.  Hardware is
cheap, and software engineers are expensive, and life is short.

In any case, this is something that I as a volunteer have ***zero***
interest in implementing.  Even if you paid me my hourly rate, I have
better things to do with my time....

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Title:
  libext2fs-dev installation of ARM64 version in parallel to AMD64 not
  possible

Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I need to build software for both AMD and ARM on one system (build-server)
  Therefore i want to install the libext2fs-dev:amd64 and libext2fs-dev:arm64 in parallel.
  Via apt install this doesn't work  - it always wants to uninstall the other package

      sudo apt install libext2fs-dev:arm64
      ...
      The following packages will be REMOVED:
        libext2fs-dev

  I also cannot use e.g. libarchive-dev:arm64, because it depends on
  libext2fs-dev

  Diff of the data in the two packages (libext2fs-
  dev_1.47.0-2.4~exp1ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb vs libext2fs-
  dev_1.47.0-2.4~exp1ubuntu4.1_arm64.deb) shows no reason for this:
  (headers are the same, binaries are in architecture-specific folders)

      sudo diff --brief -sr  ext2fs-dev-amd64/data ext2fs-dev-arm64/data
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/e2p/e2p.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/e2p/e2p.h are identical
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/bitops.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/bitops.h are identical
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_err.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_err.h are identical
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_ext_attr.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_ext_attr.h are identical
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h are identical
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2fs.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2fs.h are identical
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_io.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_io.h are identical
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_types.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_types.h are identical
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext3_extents.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext3_extents.h are identical
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/hashmap.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/hashmap.h are identical
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/qcow2.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/qcow2.h are identical
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/tdb.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/tdb.h are identical
      Only in ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/lib: aarch64-linux-gnu
      Only in ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/lib: x86_64-linux-gnu
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/share/doc/libext2fs2/html-info/libext2fs.html and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/share/doc/libext2fs2/html-info/libext2fs.html are identical
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/share/doc/libext2fs2/libext2fs.texi.gz and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/share/doc/libext2fs2/libext2fs.texi.gz are identical
      ...
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/share/doc/libext2fs-dev/copyright and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/share/doc/libext2fs-dev/copyright are identical
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/share/doc-base/libext2fs-dev.libext2fs and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/share/doc-base/libext2fs-dev.libext2fs are identical
      Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/share/info/libext2fs.info.gz and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/share/info/libext2fs.info.gz are identical

  Thank you!

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
  Package: libext2fs-dev 1.47.0-2.4~exp1ubuntu4.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.14.0-24.24~24.04.3-generic 6.14.6
  Uname: Linux 6.14.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.8
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed Jul 23 13:30:07 2025
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2025-07-23 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20250215)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
  SourcePackage: e2fsprogs
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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