Bug#891339: libglib-object-introspection-perl: Documentation should make a note that the base library devel packages must be installed

[oldtechaa]

Package: libglib-object-introspection-perl
Version: 0.042-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Utility perli11ndoc requires the *.gir files for introspected libraries to be installed to view documentation. I can't find anywhere in the documentation for this package that notes that the .gir files can be installed with the -dev packages for base libraries, i.e. libgtk-3-dev must be installed to get the gir file and documentation for Gtk-3.0 (libgtk3-perl) in perl. To make this simpler for new users who do not otherwise need the -dev package installed but do want documentation in perl, it seems that the package documentation should make a note of this requirement.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libglib-object-introspection-perl depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libextutils-depends-perl    0.405-1
ii  libextutils-pkgconfig-perl  1.15-1
ii  libffi6                     3.2.1-6
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1       1.50.0-1+b1
ii  libglib-perl                3:1.324-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.50.3-2
ii  perl                        5.24.1-3+deb9u2
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.24.1]  5.24.1-3+deb9u2

libglib-object-introspection-perl recommends no packages.

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