Hi,

Could you please build the Vala bindings for libmirage ?
This should be as simple as adding a Build-Depends on 'valac' and add
'usr/share/vala/vapi/*' to libmirage-dev.install
(at least that's what I did locally, and it seems to do the trick)

Best regards,
Sébastien

Hi Sébastien,
thanks for your bug report.

Sorry, I'm not familiar with Vala. Why would you need Vala bindings for
libmirage?

Right now I'm working on a new version of the libmirage package, but I'm
not sure if I'll add Vala bindings to it because I don't know how to
test them properly and quickly.

Best regards.

Hi Matteo,

I wanted to build https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/highscore , a software
written in vala that has a dependency on libmirage.

Sorry, I don't have smaller/simpler usecase than Highscore for you.
All I can tell you is that applying what I described in my original
email did the trick.

Cheers,
Sébastien

Hi again Sébastien,
I must confess I'm a bit skeptical of your proposal because

1. Highscore isn't packaged for Debian,
2. I wouldn't know how to test the bindings without building Highscore,
3. Highscore is still in development (see README.md).

Indeed I could add the bindings the way you told me, without testing
them, and call it a day. However to me that would be a lousy job. It
wouldn't add much value to the package, since I find pretty normal to
manually build a library needed to build a work in progress software.
People interested in that should be able to sort it out by themselves,
as you did.

However I'm open to hear more from you regarding this issue.

Hi Matteo !

well, that's why I took a closer look to it ;-)

we clearly don't have the same habit, if i need a library that is
packaged in Debian I expect to enter "apt install libwhaterver-dev" in
my terminal and call it a day :-)

Be it for using a "stable" or "work in progress" software.

In my experience, when you package a piece of software in Debian, you
will inevitably have people that use a part of it you don't use
yourself. That doesn't mean you have to start using that part yourself.
But IMHO you shouldn't prevent them from using it (even more if they
provide help/patches)

Would it change anything if I spend time writing an autopkgtest that use
the vala binding?

Cheers,
Sébastien

here you go, in attachement :-)

Sébastien Noel wrote:

Well well well... that does change things a bit!

To me simplicity and stability are paramount of good software design
(.i.e. suckless). However it's also true that Debian is the "universal
operating system", so different use cases are to be expected. Don't get
me started on dropping i386 support! :'(

You've just shown me that you care enough to help me understand your
needs. Also you've done some actual work. Thank you!

I'll happily review your patch and I'll probably include it in the next
libmirage package.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libmirage, 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 1128922@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Matteo Bini <matteobin@tiepi.it> (supplier of updated libmirage package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:16:10 +0200
Source: libmirage
Binary: gir1.2-mirage-3.2 libmirage-dev libmirage-doc libmirage12 libmirage12-dbgsym
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 3.3.1-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Matteo Bini <matteobin@tiepi.it>
Changed-By: Matteo Bini <matteobin@tiepi.it>
Description:
 gir1.2-mirage-3.2 - CD-ROM image access library (typelib files)
 libmirage-dev - CD-ROM image access library development files
 libmirage-doc - Reference manual for libMirage
 libmirage12 - CD-ROM image access library
Closes: 1118877 1121875 1128922
Changes:
 libmirage (3.3.1-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream version.
   * debian/appstream/net.sf.cdemu.libmirage.metainfo.xml:
     - Change provided library soname from 11 to 12.
     - Add 3.3.0 and 3.3.1 releases.
   * debian/control:
     - Bump cmake minimum required version to 3.16.
     - Remove libgirepository1.0-dev dependency (closes: #1118877)
       and replace it with individual packages: gir1.2-gio-2.0-dev,
       gir1.2-gmodule-2.0-dev and gir1.2-gobject-2.0-dev.
       Also add minimum required version for gobject-introspection set
       to 1.80, to catch unsupported systems.
     - Add valac as build dependency to provide Vala bindings.
     - Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4.
     - Change library soname from 11 to 12.
     - Remove devhelp recommendation (closes: #1121875).
   * debian/copyright:
     - Make the copyright fields as ASCII as possible.
     - Small edits to license fields.
   * debian/libmirage-dev.install:
     - Provide Vala bindings (closes: #1128922).
   * debian/libmirage11.*:
     - rename libmirage11 .docs, .install and .symbols files to new
       libmirage12 suffix.
   * debian/rules:
     - Change library version from 3.2 to 3.3.
   * debian/tests/*:
     - Add tests control file and vala-bindings one. Thanks to Sébastien
       Noel <sebastien@twolife.be> for the patch to provide Vala bindings
       and to test them.
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