On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 10:52 AM Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > In the longer term, we could consider making debian/libgtk-4-1.symbols.in > generate a dependency on "libgtk-4-1 #MINVER#, libgtk-4-media-gstreamer" > for dependent packages that refer to gtk_media_* symbols? But the cost > of that would be that gir1.2-gtk-4.0 would probably pick up a hard > dependency on libgtk-4-media-gstreamer, even though only a minority of > GIR users are actually using the media APIs.
I imagine we could use a dh_shlibdeps override to strip that dependency from gir1.2-gtk-4.0 (similar to the workaround we used to let things like desktop themes avoid a hard GTK2 dependency). Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
