Package: gettext Version: 0.21-4 Severity: important The gettext package includes /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/preloadable_libintl.so. This is a shared library on a public library search path. I looked whether it can be considered private, but it is documented at https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Prioritizing-messages.html and thus must be considered part of the interface. This interface is of course architecture-dependent and that means that gettext must not be marked Multi-Arch: foreign as is.
The stupid solution is removing Multi-Arch: foreign. Doing so is correct, but not useful. A lot of packages will fail to cross build from source once doing so. The /usr/bin/gettext binary needs to continue residing in a Multi-Arch: foreign binary package. The obvious consequence is that preloadable_libintl.so and the gettext binary must reside in different binary packages. The former should be located in a Multi-Arch: same marked package. The latter should continue to reside in a Multi-Arch: foreign marked package. Of course such a change is entirely inappropriate for inclusion in bullseye, so the fix will have to wait. Helmut
