libffi4 -> libffi5 transition

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday 10 May 2008 21:45, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > I am hoping someone has this on their radar screen and it already working
> > on it.  I'm not sure how much breakage this is currently causing, but the
> > list of rdepends is not small:
>
> Some of them were caused because a buggy pygobject .pc file in
> python-gobject-dev, so packages build-depending on it had an unnecessary
> dependency on libffi. Rebuilding those packages with python-gobject-dev >=
> 2.14.1-3 should fix it.
>
> Cheers,
> Emilio
>
> $ reverse-build-depends python-gobject-dev | wc -l
> 38
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/05/msg00024.html

Great.  Thanks for the pointer.  I think I'll leave this one to someone who 
more typically deals with Gnome desktop stuff.

Scott K