Bug#909846: libglib2.0-dev: absolute paths in gio-2.0.pc break reverse dependencies

[Simon McVittie]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 10:22:06 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> I believe we don't consider this a bug in glib2.0. Please fix the
> reverse dependencies instead. They'll need to be fixed for every other
> distro that ships glib 2.58.1 anyway. ebassi's blog post explains how
> to fix the bug.

Note that the Meson build system in GLib has always generated absolute
paths in the .pc file, and upstream have recommended that we switch from
building GLib with Autotools to building GLib with Meson for buster,
so reverting that change would only alter this situation temporarily.

On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 16:34:09 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Control: affects -1 src:tpm2-abrmd src:playerctl

This search

https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=AC_%28CHECK%7CPATH%29_.*%5BPp%5D%5BKk%5D%5BGg%5D.%5BCc%5D%5BOo%5D%5BNn%5D%5BFf%5D%5BIi%5D%5BGg%5D.*variable%3D.*-2%5C.0

suggests that those are likely to be the only two that fail in this way.
I'll prepare patches.

    smcv