Bug#1117130: libgirepository1.0-dev: non-multiarch libgirepository1.0-dev package should be removed

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sat Oct 25 20:30:49 BST 2025


On Fri, 03 Oct 2025 at 14:32:29 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
>As announced in
>https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/08/msg00150.html I would like
>to try to remove libgirepository1.0-dev during the forky cycle, but we
>cannot do this while it has reverse-dependencies. I still plan to do a
>mass-bug-filing for this

I've done the MBF:
https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=libgirepository1.0-dev
based on information from dak:
https://people.debian.org/~smcv/temp/2025/mbf-libgirepository1.0-dev/

but _rene_ points out that this missed at least libreoffice, which has a 
Build-Depends-Arch on libgirepository1.0-dev.

This might mean that 'dak rm -R -n -b libgirepository1.0-dev' doesn't 
know about Build-Depends-Arch, which if true seems concerning, since 
that's the same tool the ftp team use to see whether it's safe to remove 
packages? (Or perhaps I'm just using it wrong.)

     smcv



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