Re: build profile proposal: nogir (second try)

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 06:30:02PM +0000, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> - Are packages that ship gobject-introspection files supposed to have
>   <!nogir> in the relevant build dependencies (gir1.2-*-dev,
>   gobject-introspection ?), or is the build profile handling this
>   automatically?

This is not automatic. Please annotate relevant Build-Depends manually.

> - Packages using dh_install may have a line with usr/share/gir-1.0 in
>   their debian/libfoo-dev.install. This will fail if the .gir files
>   are not generated. What's the recommended way to handle this?

There is no silver bullet. Options:

 * You may use dh-exec. When doing so, you may annotate lines with build
   profiles. For example, samba's debian/winbind.install uses this
   approach.

 * You may conditionally run dh_install from debian/rules passing
   affected files as arguments.

 * You may split the affected files into a separate binary package to
   avoid this annoyance.

Helmut