Source: cinnamon-screensaver
Severity: normal
Tags: forky sid
User: [email protected]
Usertags: libgirepository1.0-dev
Control: block 1117130 by -1
As announced in [MBF] and [#1117130] the GNOME team would like to remove
libgirepository1.0-dev during the forky cycle. According to dak, this
source package contains a Depends or Build-Depends on
libgirepository1.0-dev which blocks its removal.
The README.Debian for libgirepository1.0-dev [README] provides advice on
how to choose an appropriate replacement for libgirepository1.0-dev, and
will be updated if new information becomes available.
>From a quick look at its packaging I'm not sure that
cinnamon-screensaver actually uses GObject-Introspection directly, so
maybe this dependency is unnecessary and can just be removed? (It does
use g-i *indirectly*, via python3-gi, but that doesn't need a direct
dependency or a -dev package.)
References:
[README]:
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gobject-introspection/-/blob/HEAD/debian/libgirepository1.0-dev.README.Debian
file:///usr/share/doc/libgirepository1.0-dev/README.Debian.gz
[#1117130]:
https://bugs.debian.org/1117130
[MBF]:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/08/msg00150.html
Thanks,
smcv
