Package: gir-to-d
Version: 0.23.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: trixie sid
User: [email protected]
Usertags: gi-gir-path
The gobject-introspection package had a long-standing bug that
GLib-2.0.gir was installed in /usr/share, but has architecture-dependent
contents, preventing it from being co-installed on different
architectures. Recent versions solve this by moving GLib-2.0.gir
to /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/gir-1.0 (in the gir1.2-glib-2.0-dev
package), and configuring gobject-introspection to search that path.
Unfortunately, various other packages like gir-to-d also
want to read GIR XML, and they don't search the same directories
for it that gobject-introspection does. For backwards compatibility,
gobject-introspection still installs a symbolic link
/usr/share/gir-1.0/GLib-2.0.gir -> ../../lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/GLib-2.0.gir
in the libgirepository1.0-dev package to avoid breaking those tools,
but I would prefer that symlink to disappear eventually.
There is at least one other package that has an architecture-dependent
GIR XML file: GstAudio-1.0.gir in libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
(https://bugs.debian.org/1016631). Having a symbolic link in /usr/share
is probably not an option here, because there's no convenient package
split to take advantage of; but if we move GstAudio-1.0.gir into
/usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}, then gir-to-d will become unable to
process it.
I think the best way to solve this in gir-to-d
would be to propose changes upstream to make it use
the same search path as gobject-introspection, resolving
<https://github.com/gtkd-developers/gir-to-d/issues/44>,
and then apply those changes in Debian (as a backported patch if
necessary) and configure it in a suitable way so that it searches
/usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}. Sorry, I don't know D, so I am unable
to propose a concrete solution for this.
If that cannot be done in the near future, a less good alternative
would be to have a Debian-specific patch hard-coding it to search
/usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}. Again, I don't know D, so I am unable
to propose a patch.
Thanks,
smcv
