Hi Colin, On Mi 26 Nov 2014 11:31:24 CET, Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:11:02AM +0000, Mike Gabriel wrote:At the moment all gir1.2-* packages in Debian must have multi-arch paths for the .typelibs files that provide information for gobject introspection. In Ubuntu and possibly other derivatives, this step has not been taken yet, .typelibs files are installed to non-multi-arch locations. This makes it quite difficult for downstream maintainers (Ubuntu et al.) to simply pull over src:packages that provide some gir1.2-* bin:package.Ubuntu really wants to have this feature (and indeed did some of the work for it); the only reason it wasn't in Ubuntu 14.10 was release management concerns. The current Ubuntu development series has multiarch typelibs, so this is no longer an issue for Ubuntu. I don't think it's worth complicating packages for this. I would expect derivatives to either move forward with gobject-introspection or hold back (or trivially patch) packages that install typelibs.My proposal for the interim phase (however long that might be) is to provide symlinks in gir1.2-* packages that provide correct functionalities in Debian and downstream distros (such as described above), as well. /usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Caja-2.0.typelib -> /usr/lib/<triplet>/girepository-1.0/Caja-2.0.typelib This surely wouldn't be something worth a freeze exception (I guess), but once we have jessie in place, is this something others would consider, as well?Certainly by the time jessie is out this should be a rapidly diminishing concern; and adding those symlinks stands a good chance of breaking the very use cases that multiarch gir1.2-* was trying to fix, because you'd no longer be able to coinstall gir1.2-* from different architectures. Please don't. Cheers,
Thanks for your feedback on this and information on the gir1.2-* work being done for Ubuntu 15.04.
I agree with you that we should not do such interim hacks, now that it is clear that this issue is merely a backporting issue.
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