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regarding liferea: not compatible with pygobject >= 3.52
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Package: liferea
Version: 1.16.1+ds-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream forky sid
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Control: block 1118363 by -1
pygobject >= 3.52 (available in experimental) has switched from
libgirepository-1.0 to libgirepository-2.0 as its way to access GObject
libraries such as GTK.
libgirepository-1.0 and libgirepository-2.0 can be installed on the same
system, but they cannot both be used within the same process, because
they both register a GObject type named "GIRepository". This means that
pygobject, libpeas, and apps like liferea all need to agree on which
version they are going to use.
As a result we need to do a coordinated transition from:
pygobject 3.50.x
older libpeas
older pygobject-dependent apps
to:
pygobject >= 3.52
libpeas >= 1.36.0-6~
newer pygobject-dependent apps
The symptom is that if you start liferea on a system that has the versions of
pygobject and libpeas from experimental:
sudo apt install libgirepository-2.0-0 liferea
sudo apt install python3-gi{,-cairo}/experimental
libpeas-1.0-0/experimental gir1.2-peas-1.0/experimental
liferea
it won't start, with messages similar to those below:
>/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/module.py:50: Warning: cannot register
>existing type 'GIRepository'
> repository = Repository.get_default()
>/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/module.py:50: Warning:
>g_once_init_leave_pointer: assertion 'result != 0' failed
> repository = Repository.get_default()
>/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/module.py:50: Warning:
>g_object_new_with_properties: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
> repository = Repository.get_default()
>/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/module.py:50: Warning:
>g_object_add_weak_pointer: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
> repository = Repository.get_default()
>/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/module.py:50: Warning: g_once_init_leave:
>assertion 'result != 0' failed
> repository = Repository.get_default()
>/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/module.py:50: Warning: g_object_ref:
>assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
> repository = Repository.get_default()
For GNOME apps, a similar issue is fixed in the latest experimental
uploads of eog, gedit, rhythmbox and totem, but now we need to do the
same for non-GNOME apps as well.
I'm preparing patches for this, but they are not ready yet
(see https://salsa.debian.org/debian/liferea/-/merge_requests/5 for
progress). Initially, these changes will need to be uploaded to
experimental, either by a maintainer or as an NMU. Optionally a
maintainer could update to the latest 1.16.x release from upstream
instead of backporting patches (but as a non-maintainer I don't plan to
propose that change myself).
After we get a transition slot from the release team, we will need to
include liferea in a coordinated upload to unstable of pygobject, libpeas
and several affected apps. Again, this can either be a maintainer upload
or an NMU.
Thanks,
smcv
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Source: liferea
Source-Version: 1.16.1+ds-2.1
Done: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
liferea, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Simon McVittie <[email protected]> (supplier of updated liferea package)
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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:43:34 +0100
Source: liferea
Architecture: source
Version: 1.16.1+ds-2.1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Paul Gevers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Closes: 1118500
Changes:
liferea (1.16.1+ds-2.1) experimental; urgency=medium
.
* Non-maintainer upload
* d/control: Drop unneeded dependency on gir1.2-peas-1.0
(Helps: #1118363)
* d/control,
d/p/Add-girepository-2.0-hint-on-1449-in-configure.ac.patch,
d/p/Automatically-determine-girepository-version-to-use.patch,
d/p/Backport-fixes-from-1459.patch:
Automatically detect whether to use libgirepository-1.0
(needed with pygobject < 3.52) or libgirepository-2.0
(needed with pygobject >= 3.52).
* d/control: Specifically build against the new version of python3-gi.
This puts us on the "new" side of the pygobject transition.
(Helps: #1099164) (Closes: #1118500)
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