Bug#476230: closed by Matthias Klose

[Manuel Metz <mmetz@astro.uni-bonn.de>]

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UPDATE:

Cross-checking with Ubuntu I found out the following:

1) python-gobject-dev depends on libffi-dev
2) libffi4-dev provides libffi-dev

So if libffi4-dev is installed, libffi-dev is not forced to be installed.

Manuel