Source: gobject-introspection Version: 1.74.0-3 Severity: serious Justification: violates Debian policy section 9.1.1
g-ir-scanner produces .gir files, which are installed into /usr/share/gir-1.0 e.g. by libgirepository1.0-dev. According to Debian policy section 9.1.1, such placement must comply with FHS 3.0 and according to FHS 3.0 section 4.11.1, data within this directory must be architecture-independent. However, the .gir files typically vary with the size of various types, the endianess and other aspects. Quite obviously, they are not architecture-independent. Thus they violate policy. There is basically three ways to fix this. One option is to change the location of .gir files to /usr/lib/<triplet>/gir-1.0. Doing so, fundamentally removes any way of violating FHS due to the additional remarks in Debian policy section 9.1.1. The other option is to make gir files truly architecture-independent and removing any architecture-specific aspects from them. A third option is to update Debian policy to state exceptions to this rule given such widespread violation. I recognize that neither of the first two options is easy to implement. The former involves a quite elaborate transition and the latter involves quite a bit work work and likely also breaks some consumers. We also shipped with this bug in multiple releases, so we certainly want to ignore it for bookworm. Yet, this does not remove the fact that current behaviour violates current policy. Helmut
