Bug#1055437: gobject-introspection: Please provide a build profile to avoid build-dep loops through cairo

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: gobject-introspection
Version: 1.78.1-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

gobject-introspection currently build-depends on cairo, but various
build-dependencies of cairo build-depend on gobject-introspection, thus
creating various loops that makes bootstraping new Debian ports tricky.

It is however easy for gobject-introspection to break these loops by
making the cairo build-dependency optional and make gir1.2-freedesktop
not provide gir1.2-cairo-1.0.

Thanks,
Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, arm64

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gobject-introspection depends on:
ii  build-essential                                             12.10
ii  libc6                                                       2.37-12
ii  libdpkg-perl                                                1.22.1
ii  libffi8                                                     3.4.4-1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1 [libgirepository-1.0-1-with-libffi8]  1.78.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                                2.78.0-2
ii  python3                                                     3.11.4-5+b1
ii  python3-distutils                                           3.11.5-1
ii  python3-mako                                                1.2.4+ds-2
ii  python3-markdown                                            3.4.4-1

gobject-introspection recommends no packages.

gobject-introspection suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Samuel
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