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gobject-introspection (1.78.1-6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * dh_girepository:
    - Fix generation of GIR XML -> typelib dependency
    - Don't generate Depends for GIR XML included by private GIR XML.
      It's somewhat common for packages like gnome-shell and cinnamon
      to ship GIR XML in a private location in a non-"-dev"-suffixed
      package. In such cases, development/compilation is not the primary
      purpose of the package, so we don't want to force a dependency
      on the -dev package that contains an included GIR XML file. For
      example, it would be inappropriate to force cinnamon to depend on
      libmuffin-dev, or gnome-shell on libmutter-dev.
      (Helps: #1057391)
  * policy:
    - Relax naming and dependency requirements for private GIR XML.
      As discussed on #1057391, this mini-policy is primarily for public
      GIR XML and public typelibs. (Helps: #1057391)
    - Cite another reason why public GIR XML cannot be
      Architecture: all
    - Replace an outdated introductory paragraph
  * d/control, d/rules: Use a shorter substvar name for libffiN
  * d/rules: Pass all dpkg-architecture variables to d/extra-substvars.py
  * d/extra-substvars.py: Generate substvars for host architecture information
  * d/elf-get-needed: Add a tool to read dependencies' SONAMEs
  * d/rules, d/control: Don't run gtk-doc for Architecture: any builds
  * d/control: g-i Depends on ${perl:Depends}, for dh_girepository
  * d/copyright: Update
  * d/control, d/tests: Depend on pkgconf in preference to pkg-config
  * d/control: gobject-introspection Depends on pkgconf
  * d/p/scanner-If-using-libtool-with-a-wrapper-use-libtool-mode-.patch:
    Add a patch to improve use of --use-binary-wrapper with libtool.
    This will help to make a future version of gobject-introspection able
    to cross-compile typelibs.
  * d/p/Drop-GIO-from-libgirepository-s-dependencies.patch:
    Add patch from upstream to avoid depending on GIO in type-dumping tool.
    This is needed for forward-compatibility with GLib 2.79.x.
  * Install GLib-2.0.gir into multiarch location, with a compatibility
    symlink.
    This will help to start the process of updating dependent packages
    to be able to load GLib-2.0.gir and other GIR XML from the multiarch
    location. (Helps: #859013)
  * Generate architecture-prefixed executables.
    These will eventually make it possible to cross-compile
    GIR XML and typelibs for (for example) riscv64-linux-gnu
    libraries on an x86_64-linux-gnu build system, by invoking
    riscv64-linux-gnu-g-ir-scanner and so on. (Helps: #801672, #905715)
  * Edit pkg-config metadata to point to architecture-prefixed tools
  * Install a Meson cross-file to force use of the prefixed tools
    If necessary, Meson can be invoked as
    "meson --cross-file ${DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE}-gobject-introspection.ini"
    to use this.
  * d/control, d/rules: Use a prebuilt g-i when cross-building.
    We can generate a special variant of debian/cross-g-ir-tool.in that wraps
    the upstream g-ir-scanner, etc. binaries with an appropriate search path
    and executable wrapper to adapt them for the host architecture.
  * d/control: Make build-dependencies satisfiable during cross-compilation.
    Thanks to Helmut Grohne for hints on how this can be achieved.

 -- Simon McVittie <email address hidden>  Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:01:44 +0000

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gir1.2-freedesktop: Introspection data for some FreeDesktop components

 GObject Introspection is a project for providing machine readable
 introspection data of the API of C libraries. This introspection
 data can be used in several different use cases, for example
 automatic code generation for bindings, API verification and documentation
 generation.
 .
 GObject Introspection contains tools to generate and handle the
 introspection data.
 .
 This package contains small pieces of introspection data for the Cairo,
 FontConfig, FreeType, GL, and some XOrg libraries, in the typelib format
 used to generate bindings for dynamic languages like JavaScript and Python.
 They are far from complete and only include what is necessary for other
 introspection packages to work properly.

gir1.2-glib-2.0: Introspection data for GLib, GObject, Gio and GModule

 GObject Introspection is a project for providing machine readable
 introspection data of the API of C libraries. This introspection
 data can be used in several different use cases, for example
 automatic code generation for bindings, API verification and documentation
 generation.
 .
 This package contains the introspection data for the GLib, GObject,
 GModule and Gio libraries, in the typelib format used to generate
 bindings for dynamic languages like JavaScript and Python.

gobject-introspection: Generate interface introspection data for GObject libraries

 GObject Introspection is a project for providing machine readable
 introspection data of the API of C libraries. This introspection
 data can be used in several different use cases, for example
 automatic code generation for bindings, API verification and documentation
 generation.
 .
 GObject Introspection contains tools to generate and handle the
 introspection data.
 .
 This package contains tools for extracting introspection data from libraries
 and transforming it to different formats. The versions of these tools with
 architecture name prefixes, such as riscv64-linux-gnu-g-ir-scanner,
 can be used during cross-compilation.
 .
 Although this package includes the pkg-config metadata for both the tools
 and the libgirepository-1.0 library, it does not guarantee to provide the
 library itself (currently it does provide the libgirepository-1.0.so
 symlink as a workaround for a Meson issue, but this should not be
 relied on). Packages that explicitly link to libgirepository-1.0.so,
 mainly dynamic language bindings like GJS and PyGIi, will need to
 build-depend on libgirepository-1.0-dev in addition to this package.

gobject-introspection-dbgsym: debug symbols for gobject-introspection
libgirepository-1.0-1: Library for handling GObject introspection data (runtime library)

 GObject Introspection is a project for providing machine readable
 introspection data of the API of C libraries. This introspection
 data can be used in several different use cases, for example
 automatic code generation for bindings, API verification and documentation
 generation.
 .
 GObject Introspection contains tools to generate and handle the
 introspection data.
 .
 This package contains a C library for handling the introspection data.

libgirepository-1.0-1-dbgsym: debug symbols for libgirepository-1.0-1
libgirepository1.0-dev: Library for handling GObject introspection data (complete development files)

 GObject Introspection is a project for providing machine readable
 introspection data of the API of C libraries. This introspection
 data can be used in several different use cases, for example
 automatic code generation for bindings, API verification and documentation
 generation.
 .
 This metapackage depends on everything needed to use GObject-Introspection.
 It also provides GLib-2.0.gir at its traditional location in /usr/share,
 for compatibility with older code-generation tools which do not read GIR XML
 from /usr/lib/riscv64-linux-gnu/gir-1.0.
 .
 Please consider build-depending on gobject-introspection and the appropriate
 gir1.2-*-dev packages in preference to this package, to allow for
 cross-compilation.

libgirepository1.0-doc: Library for handling GObject introspection data (documentation)

 GObject Introspection is a project for providing machine readable
 introspection data of the API of C libraries. This introspection
 data can be used in several different use cases, for example
 automatic code generation for bindings, API verification and documentation
 generation.
 .
 GObject Introspection contains tools to generate and handle the
 introspection data.
 .
 This package contains the documentation for the C library for handling the
 introspection data.