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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]