Bug#766644: Proposed MBF: versioned dependencies on gobject-introspection

[Michael Biebl]

Am 24.10.2014 um 21:39 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 24.10.2014 um 20:54 schrieb Thorsten Glaser:
>> However, contrary to what I said in the bugreport, I now think that we
>> need a build dependency on newer gobject-introspection in the packages
>> that *use* these typelib files, because it is the dh_girepository call
>> in those packages that actually fails, which means that the gir-* pak‐
>> kages need a versioned Depends (not Build-Depends) on it (to ensure it
>> is installed when they’re used during a package build).
>>
>> Please share advice of how to best the fix, and how to go on filing
>> the bugs, if at all.
> 
> dh_girepository will generate a dependency on libgirepository-1.0-1
> (>= 1.41.4-1) via ${gir:Depends} for those gir packages.

This was added in gobject-introspection_1.42.0-2

> gobject-introspection itself has a Depends on libgirepository-1.0-1 (=
> ${binary:Version})
> 
> So, as soon as you start using ma gir packages in your package, it's
> guaranteed that gobjection-introspection/dh_girepository is recent enough.


In my other email I suggested to use a versioned b-dep on
gobject-introspection (>= 1.41.4-1) or (>= 1.41.4-1~), since that was
the first version where libgirepository became multi-arch aware.

Given the above, it's probably better to bump that to 1.42.0-2, to
ensure those ma gir packages have such a strict dependency.

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