Bug#474644: libffi4-dev Provides: libffi-dev, but does not appear to actually be compatible

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

reassign 474644 pygobject
thanks

libffi4-dev never had a pkgconfig file, and will not have one. either
pygobject should tighten the b-d, or the configure check has to check
for a libffi4-dev without a pkgconfig file.

Nathaniel Smith writes:
> Package: libffi4-dev
> Version: 4.1.2-6
> Severity: normal
> 
> I have python-gobject-dev installed; python-gobject-dev Depends: on
> libffi-dev.  On my system, this dependency was satisfied by libffi4-dev,
> because libffi4-dev Provides: libffi-dev.
> 
> However, this leaves me with a broken python-gobject-dev package, because
> at least some operations seem to actually need libffi-dev; libffi4-dev
> doesn't work:
> 
> # With libffi4-dev installed:
> $ pkg-config --libs --cflags pygobject-2.0
> Package libffi was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libffi.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> Package 'libffi', required by 'PyGObject', not found
> 
> # With libffi-dev installed instead:
> $ pkg-config --libs --cflags pygobject-2.0
> -I/usr/include/pygtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include  -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0  
> 
> (I'm not entirely sure whether this should be considered a bug in
> libffi or python-gobject; this is just my best guess.)
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-gcc-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org