As announced in [MBF] and [#1117130] the GNOME team would like to remove
libgirepository1.0-dev during the forky cycle. According to dak, this
source package contains a Depends or Build-Depends on
libgirepository1.0-dev which blocks its removal.

The README.Debian for libgirepository1.0-dev [README] provides advice on
how to choose an appropriate replacement for libgirepository1.0-dev, and
will be updated if new information becomes available.

From a quick look at its packaging I'm not sure that dialect
actually uses GObject-Introspection, so maybe this dependency is
unnecessary and can just be removed?

References:
[README]:
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gobject-introspection/-/blob/HEAD/debian/libgirepository1.0-dev.README.Debian
    file:///usr/share/doc/libgirepository1.0-dev/README.Debian.gz
[#1117130]:
https://bugs.debian.org/1117130
[MBF]:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/08/msg00150.html

Thanks,
    smcv

Please consider the attached patch, also available as a git branch in
<https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dialect/-/tree/wip/smcv/gir?ref_type=heads>
(I would have created a merge request for this, but they're disabled
for that repository).

I built dialect with and without that change, and used diffoscope to
confirm that the resulting binaries are identical; piuparts also passes.
Not otherwise tested (there are no autopkgtests, and I didn't attempt to
install or run dialect manually).

Thanks,
     smcv

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dialect, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1118809@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> (supplier of updated dialect package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:33:29 +0200
Source: dialect
Architecture: source
Version: 2.6.1+ds+~2.6.1+ds-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Changed-By: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Closes: 1118809
Changes:
 dialect (2.6.1+ds+~2.6.1+ds-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * build-depend on recent gobject-introspection
     (not obsolete libgirepository1.0-dev);
     closes: bug#1118809, thanks to Simon McVittie
   * update watch file:
     + stop set auto-mangling of upstream version (now done by default)
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