Bug#1054155: gnome-clocks: Missing dependency on libgtk-4-media-gstreamer

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 10:52 AM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> In the longer term, we could consider making debian/libgtk-4-1.symbols.in
> generate a dependency on "libgtk-4-1 #MINVER#, libgtk-4-media-gstreamer"
> for dependent packages that refer to gtk_media_* symbols? But the cost
> of that would be that gir1.2-gtk-4.0 would probably pick up a hard
> dependency on libgtk-4-media-gstreamer, even though only a minority of
> GIR users are actually using the media APIs.

I imagine we could use a dh_shlibdeps override to strip that
dependency from gir1.2-gtk-4.0 (similar to the workaround we used to
let things like desktop themes avoid a hard GTK2 dependency).

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha