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.

ruby-gir-ffi seems to be a language binding that uses libgirepository-1.0,
so probably it should use libgirepository-1.0-dev (or
libgirepository-2.0-dev) as its replacement.

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

Control: tags -1 + patch

Please consider
<https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-gir-ffi/-/merge_requests/1>
which also cleans up some other large/unnecessary Build-Depends.

Thanks,
     smcv

Hello,

Bug #1118918 in ruby-gir-ffi reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-gir-ffi/-/commit/3f36c403a0fe5be2596d41efe87da5f3d23dd3fe
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d/control: Replace obsolete B-D libgirepository1.0-dev

This package uses the libgirepository library, but doesn't need the
other deprecated backward-compatibility that is represented by
the libgirepository1.0-dev package.

Closes: #1118918
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Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1118918