Re: spurious/incorrect "gobject-introspection" dependencies?

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 02:28:27PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 04:18:24PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 03:20:39PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> > > Excuse me, I missed bindings.
> > 
> > Still it is important to keep it optional as it plain breaks the build
> > for *many* pkgs - and it is of zero importance to the user if you
> > don't use python nor are debugging gnome.
> 
> This thread started with py-gobject3, which is precisely for python bindings.
> 
> (Proposed build-only dependency is probably correct.)

Actually no: gobject-introspection provides runtime files which you
might expect glib with an introspection option to provide, so pygobject3
wouldn't be much use without it. (Look at it is a runtime dependency on
wrapped glib2)

Cheers,

Patrick