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and subject line Bug#1110825: fixed in glib2.0 2.85.3-1
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regarding libgirepository-2.0-0: ABI is dependent on current version of libffi
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Package: libgirepository-2.0-0
Version: 2.84.4-1
Severity: important
libgirepository-2.0-0 has libffi data structures in its public API,
specifically everything in <girepository/girffi.h>:
- gi_type_tag_get_ffi_type()
- gi_type_info_get_ffi_type()
- gi_type_info_extract_ffi_return_value()
- gi_type_tag_extract_ffi_return_value()
- gi_function_info_prep_invoker()
- gi_function_invoker_new_for_address()
- gi_function_invoker_clear()
- gi_callable_info_create_closure()
- gi_callable_info_get_closure_native_address()
- gi_callable_info_destroy_closure()
Next time libffi does an ABI transition, the ABI of these functions will
change, but upstream is very unlikely to bump the SONAME of
libgirepository-2.0-0 for this (because nothing under their control will
have changed).
A mitigation is that as of trixie, nobody is using libgirepository-2.0-0
yet: the only rdep in the archive is python3-gi/experimental. I expect
that python3-gi and libgjs will both want to move to
libgirepository-2.0-0 in the forky cycle, though.
The way we dealt with this for libgirepository-1.0-1 was to provide a
virtual package with a mechanically-generated name:
Package: libgirepository-1.0-1
Version: 1.84.0-1
Provides: libgirepository-1.0-1-with-libffi8 (= 1.84.0-1)
and make it generate dependencies on that virtual package:
Package: python3-gi
Depends: ..., libgirepository-1.0-1-with-libffi8 (>= 1.62.0-4~), ...
I think we should teach src:glib2.0 to do the same thing.
We might want to limit the dependency generation so that only the
libffi-related functions listed above will generate a dependency on the
virtual package, which would allow packages to call functions like
gi_repository_prepend_library_path() without becoming dependent on a
specific libffi.
smcv
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: glib2.0
Source-Version: 2.85.3-1
Done: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
glib2.0, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:00:49 +0100
Source: glib2.0
Architecture: source
Version: 2.85.3-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Closes: 1110696 1110825
Changes:
glib2.0 (2.85.3-1) experimental; urgency=medium
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* New upstream development release
* d/copyright: Update
* Merge packaging from unstable (Closes: #1110825, #1110696)
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