#1118823 giara: depends on non-multiarch-friendly libgirepository1.0-dev

Package:
src:giara
Source:
src:giara
Submitter:
Simon McVittie
Date:
2026-08-18 23:03:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1118823#5
Date:
2025-10-25 14:05:49 UTC
From:
To:
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 it seems that giara's only direct use
of GObject-Introspection is dependency('gobject-introspection-1.0', ...)
in the upstream build system. If that's true then replacing
libgirepository1.0-dev with gobject-introspection (>= 1.80) is
sufficient.

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
#1118823#12
Date:
2026-08-18 23:01:58 UTC
From:
To:
Control: tags -1 + patch

Yes it is. Please consider
<https://salsa.debian.org/debian/giara/-/merge_requests/2>.

Thanks,
     smcv