Bug#472139: deskbar-applet: libffi built from separate source, pleae b-d on libffi-dev

[Matthias Klose]

Romain Francoise writes:
> Matthias Klose <doko at cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> 
> > but it depends on libffi4.
> 
> It picks up this dependency indirectly, because of python-gobject:
> 
> $ pkg-config --libs pygobject-2.0
> -lffi -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0
> $
> 
> Can't this be handled like a regular transition, with binNMUs?

maybe, but why is this package linked with libffi at all? does it
reference any symbols from libffi?