Bug#1145038: libdex-1-1: manuals fails to start: cannot create new instance of invalid (non-instantiatable) type '<invalid>'

Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.rc
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Control: affects -1 + foundry gnome-builder

On Fri, 21 Aug 2026 at 18:43:26 +0200, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
>Should we ask libdex upstream to increase the soname?

It's probably worth asking - it *is* an incompatible change, so strictly 
speaking they should only do this in conjunction with a SONAME bump. But 
they might refuse.

There are only a few affected apps, so we might be able to just fix them 
all (in progress) and add versioned Breaks 
(https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/libdex/-/merge_requests/3), and it 
certainly seems like it would be worthwhile to stop the bleeding in the 
short term.

I assume you and Dawid only tested with apps that were already 
unaffected by this in testing, like bazaar, d-spy and sysprof?

     smcv
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