Bug#761019: gstreamer1.0 nmu

[Sebastian Dröge]

On So, 2014-11-02 at 12:03 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Le Sun, 02 Nov 2014 11:35:21 +0100,
> Sebastian Dröge <slomo at coaxion.net> a écrit :
> 
> > On So, 2014-11-02 at 10:41 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 00:52:23 -0400 Michael Gilbert
> > > <mgilbert at debian.org> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > > Hi, I've uploaded an nmu fixing this issue.  Please see attached.
> > > 
> > > Well this is certainly a solution, not the solution IMHO.
> > > 
> > > The dependencies are usually calculated by dh_girepository and it's
> > > not happening here some some reasons. debian/rules is mangling the
> > > shlibs file, I guess this is the reason.
> > 
> > Yeah, I was looking into this a bit and couldn't find the reason for
> > dh_girepository not picking it up... but also didn't want to do this
> > workaround solution as there seems to be an underlying problem
> > somewhere.
> > 
> > As we're near a release I guess this workaround is fine, but we should
> > keep this bug open nonetheless.
> > 
> > Same bug is in gst-plugins-base1.0 btw. Feel free to NMU that one the
> > same way too, but also keep that bug open.
> 
> The reason seems to be the dummy shlibs.local. dh_girepository is
> called twice, the 1st time (explicitly from the debian/rules) before
> the this dummy shlibs.local is created and a 2nd time (cdbs is doing
> that) after the shlibs.local has been created. Only the result from
> the 2nd call is used.
> 
> So my question is why is this dummy shlibs.local file created during the
> build? We could either remove this completely or move the call to
> dh_girepository to the end of the common-binary-predeb-arch target
> (after the "rm"). Just tried with both solution and they all seems to
> work.

I have no idea :) It was probably a workaround for something many years
ago and IIRC this was already there before I took over the packages.
It should be safe to remove if the results are the same. Will upload new
packages of gstreamer1.0 and gst-plugins-base1.0 tomorrow unless someone
else wants to do it before

Thanks!
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