On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Simon McVittie wrote:
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While looking into this I noticed that gir1.2-freedesktop depends on
libcairo-gobject2 but no other shared libraries. This seems really
weird: I would expect it to either depend on all the others (libdbus,
etc.), or on no shared libraries.
Hello Simon,
although DBusGLib-1.0.gir (and DBusGLib-1.0.typelib) has a reference
to dbus_g_proxy_get_type() from libdbus-glib-1.so.2, the corresponding
attribute 'shared-library' has yet been missing in the XML element
'namespace'. On the other hand in cairo-1.0.gir, the namespace element
has this attribute. That is why dh_girepository (together with
dpkg-shlibdeps) is able to determine the dependency on libcairo-gobject2
but not on libdbus-glib-1-2 for instance. There is just the same issue
with DBus-1.0.gir (and DBus-1.0.typelib) that has a reference to
dbus_connection_get_type() from libglib-2.0.so.0.
Best regards,
Thomas Uhle
