Source: shotwell Version: 0.32.15-1 Severity: serious Tags: ftbfs sid patch
shotwell fails to build with gexiv2 0.16 which is currently in Unstable. Failed build log excerpt ================== Run-time dependency gexiv2 found: NO (tried pkg-config and cmake) ../meson.build:78:9: ERROR: Dependency "gexiv2" not found (tried pkg-config and cmake) Patches ====== I am attaching patches. The first 2 patches fix this issue and the other patches improve the packaging. Alternatively, these changes are also available at https://salsa.debian.org/jbicha/shotwell Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
From 48390d15ebd54e695aec97da50eb8615fb05123c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jeremy=20B=C3=ADcha?= <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 10:17:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/6] Add patch to build with latest gexiv2 --- .../build-Bump-gexiv2-dependency.patch | 22 +++++++++++++++++++ debian/patches/series | 1 + 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 debian/patches/build-Bump-gexiv2-dependency.patch diff --git a/debian/patches/build-Bump-gexiv2-dependency.patch b/debian/patches/build-Bump-gexiv2-dependency.patch new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ac8028b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/patches/build-Bump-gexiv2-dependency.patch @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +From: Jens Georg <[email protected]> +Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:26:42 +0200 +Subject: build: Bump gexiv2 dependency + +Origin: upstream master branch +--- + meson.build | 2 +- + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) + +diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build +index bf9d8dc..f6c5471 100644 +--- a/meson.build ++++ b/meson.build +@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ gstreamer = dependency('gstreamer-1.0', version : '>= 1.20') + gstreamer_pbu = dependency('gstreamer-pbutils-1.0', version : '>= 1.20') + gphoto2 = dependency('libgphoto2', version : '>= 2.5.0') + gudev = dependency('gudev-1.0', version : '>= 145', required: false) +-gexiv2 = dependency('gexiv2', version: '>= 0.12.3') ++gexiv2 = dependency('gexiv2-0.16', version: '>= 0.15.0') + libraw = dependency('libraw', version : '>= 0.13.2') + libexif = dependency('libexif', version : '>= 0.6.16') + unity = dependency('unity', required : false) diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series index e69de29b..642d04f5 100644 --- a/debian/patches/series +++ b/debian/patches/series @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +build-Bump-gexiv2-dependency.patch -- 2.53.0
From 87f8b79e555b6ba696d5c0f33ede034ae29b9237 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jeremy=20B=C3=ADcha?= <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 10:12:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 3/6] Add upstream metadata --- debian/upstream/metadata | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) create mode 100644 debian/upstream/metadata diff --git a/debian/upstream/metadata b/debian/upstream/metadata new file mode 100644 index 00000000..299feb53 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/upstream/metadata @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +--- +Bug-Database: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell/-/work_items +Bug-Submit: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell/-/work_items/new +Repository: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell.git +Repository-Browse: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell -- 2.53.0
From a1365d12c54891c2048e0314a688fd6bc18b8c0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jeremy=20B=C3=ADcha?= <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 10:20:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 4/6] Update dh_gnome override to avoid a build warning --- debian/rules | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index 8d4b33cd..f5823ab1 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ override_dh_auto_configure: dh_auto_configure -- \ -Dunity_support=true $(APPORT) -override_dh_gnome_clean: - dh_gnome_clean --no-control +# We only use dh_gnome to automatically run dh_translations in Ubuntu +override_dh_gnome: -- 2.53.0
From 2094477d37d2604980545ac65bbf94be90f9ca1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jeremy=20B=C3=ADcha?= <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 10:17:56 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/6] Update minimum gexiv2 --- debian/control | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 723e8755..6dd6625e 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Build-Depends: libexif-dev, libgcr-3-dev, libgee-0.8-dev, - libgexiv2-dev, + libgexiv2-dev (>= 0.16), libglib2.0-dev, libgphoto2-dev, libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev, -- 2.53.0
From 9a037abda13138d63667a03183b6d2c2e8d6cf93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jeremy=20B=C3=ADcha?= <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 10:21:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 5/6] Remove --buildsystem=meson since it's already the default --- debian/rules | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index f5823ab1..08d3e4dd 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ ifeq ($(shell dpkg-vendor --derives-from Ubuntu && echo yes),yes) endif %: - dh $@ --buildsystem=meson + dh $@ override_dh_auto_configure: dh_auto_configure -- \ -- 2.53.0
From a8f02f964020f3db5c264a699449f8624953b979 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jeremy=20B=C3=ADcha?= <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 10:21:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 6/6] Remove unnecessary VALAFLAGS configuration --- debian/rules | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index 08d3e4dd..736923b1 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all -export VALAFLAGS:=$(foreach w,$(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS),-X $(w)) - #Enable the apport option when building of Ubuntu ifeq ($(shell dpkg-vendor --derives-from Ubuntu && echo yes),yes) APPORT = -Dinstall_apport_hook=true -- 2.53.0
