#1118923 telepathy-logger: depends on non-multiarch-friendly libgirepository1.0-dev

Package:
src:telepathy-logger
Source:
src:telepathy-logger
Submitter:
Simon McVittie
Date:
2026-08-20 09:03:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1118923#5
Date:
2025-10-25 15:12:24 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.

telepathy-logger follows the typical pattern for a package that has a
public C/C++ library with GObject-Introspection bindings, so it can
probably follow the same conversion steps as other libraries like
libmanette:
<https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/libmanette/-/merge_requests/6>.

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
#1118923#12
Date:
2026-08-20 09:02:10 UTC
From:
To:
Control: tags -1 + pending

This appears to have been fixed in the packaging git repo by commit
3eaa8fa89106de77b14bded89ac602c3a5fcc194 "Update gir handling" in 2025,
but that change was never released. If this package is still necessary,
please could someone who uses it upload it and close this bug?

Thanks,
     smcv