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Bug#1108432: unblock: gstreamer1.0/1.26.2-2 (pre-approval)

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On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 at 12:04:27 -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> wrote:
>> On 2025-06-28 09:05:13 -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
>> > For forky, we intend to move architecture-dependent gstreamer .gir
>> > files to /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/gir-1.0 and set Multi-Arch:
>> > same.
>>
>> Why is this not done now?
>
>Simon is concerned that some gobject-introspection language bindings
>generators have not yet been updated to handle gir files that are
>installed to architecture-dependent directories.

An analogy might be helpful: it's as though gcc had been updated to 
search both /usr/include/TUPLE and /usr/include, but all of our other 
C/C++ toolchains were still only searching /usr/include, which would 
make it a regression risk for us to move C/C++ headers to 
/usr/include/TUPLE at this stage.

>most generators have been updated for [this change]

I think that's perhaps misleading. The only components that have been 
updated to search /usr/lib/TUPLE/gir-1.0 are the ones that are part of 
src:glib2.0 and src:gobject-introspection, primarily g-ir-compiler and 
gi-compile-repository, which compile GIR XML into architecture-dependent 
binary typelibs to be used by dynamic languages like Python and 
JavaScript.

This is enough for typical C/C++ libraries, but doesn't help third-party 
bindings generators (and in particular, based on 
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=Gst-1.0&literal=1&perpkg=1 I 
think moving Gst-1.0.gir might break src:gtk-d and one of the examples 
in src:cppgir).

>Specifically, these are the affected generators we know about:
>https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-gnome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=gi-gir-path

... and notice that there are no closed bugs on that list, only open 
bugs. (cppgir was briefly fixed, but the update to a new upstream git 
snapshot was reverted, re-introducing the bug.)

     smcv

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Bug#1108432: unblock: gstreamer1.0/1.26.2-2 (pre-approval) Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> - 2025-06-28 15:10 +0200
  Bug#1108432: unblock: gstreamer1.0/1.26.2-2 (pre-approval) Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> - 2025-06-28 17:40 +0200
    Bug#1108432: unblock: gstreamer1.0/1.26.2-2 (pre-approval) Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> - 2025-06-28 18:10 +0200
      Bug#1108432: unblock: gstreamer1.0/1.26.2-2 (pre-approval) Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2025-06-29 10:30 +0200
      Bug#1108432: unblock: gstreamer1.0/1.26.2-2 (pre-approval) Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> - 2025-06-30 21:20 +0200

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