Bug#1111202: gexiv2: 0.15 API transition

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 6:09 AM boxabc1 <boxabc1 at proton.me> wrote:
> Nautilus 50.alpha requests the 0.16.0 version of gexiv2
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> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/commit/220a3f644d397937da3895e9a80dc1ca7c70f3c9
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> It seems to still work fine falling back to 0.14.2 with this patch,
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> https://salsa.debian.org/charles05/nautilus/-/commit/6990372608e894900ea87a1526738f565ce1e25d
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> Which is included in the WIP packaging for Ubuntu Resolute here,
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> https://salsa.debian.org/charles05/nautilus/-/commits/ubuntu/latest
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> Happy to look at the transition if no one else is looking at it.

Yes, no one is looking at this transition currently. I like my
original suggestion of keeping gexiv2 for the new source package and
introducing a gexiv2-0.14 source package for the older version as a
hint to people that gexiv2 is the preferred version. I don't know how
big the differences are but I assume we'll need to keep both versions
for a while.

For Ubuntu's purposes, Ubuntu ideally would only have one version of
gexiv2 in main at a time. There are 3 reverse dependencies in Ubuntu
main:
- localsearch
- nautilus
- shotwell

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha