Your message dated Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:44:15 +0100 with message-id <20181017134415.ga30...@espresso.pseudorandom.co.uk> and subject line Re: Bug#909846: libglib2.0-dev: absolute paths in gio-2.0.pc break reverse dependencies has caused the Debian Bug report #909846, regarding libglib2.0-dev: absolute paths in gio-2.0.pc break reverse dependencies that pass them to AC_PATH_PROG to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: libglib2.0-dev Version: 2.58.1-1 Severity: serious Control: affects -1 src:tpm2-abrmd src:playerctl https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/tpm2-abrmd.html ... checking for GOBJECT... yes checking for SAPI... yes checking for /usr/bin/gdbus-codegen... no configure: error: *** gdbus-codegen is required to build tpm2-abrmd https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1521 even mentions that this is known to break at least one reverse dependency. How on earth could it happen that this was anyhow backported to a stable branch?
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--- Begin Message ---On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 at 23:55:12 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 10:22:06 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > I believe we don't consider this a bug in glib2.0. > > It doesn't look as though this is going to be changed upstream, so > I don't think diverging is a good idea in the long term; and only > two packages seem to be affected, so fixing those packages seems a > reasonable short-term solution. Both are now fixed in testing. > I'm still trying to get clarification from the GLib upstream maintainers > on what their recommendation is for Autotools projects It is basically this: > PKG_CHECK_VAR([GDBUS_CODEGEN], [gio-2.0], [gdbus_codegen]) which can be overridden with "./configure GDBUS_CODEGEN=/elsewhere/gdbus-codegen" if required. smcv
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