GObject Introspection is a project for providing machine readable
 introspection data of the API of C libraries. This introspection
 data can be used in several different use cases, for example
 automatic code generation for bindings, API verification and documentation
 generation.
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 GObject Introspection contains tools to generate and handle the
 introspection data.
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 This package contains tools for extracting introspection data from libraries
 and transforming it to different formats. The versions of these tools with
 architecture name prefixes, such as i686-linux-gnu-g-ir-scanner,
 can be used during cross-compilation on a build architecture with the same
 endianness.
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 Although this package includes the pkg-config metadata for both the tools
 and the libgirepository-1.0 library, it does not guarantee to provide the
 library itself (currently it does provide the libgirepository-1.0.so
 symlink as a workaround for a Meson issue, but this should not be
 relied on). Packages that explicitly link to libgirepository-1.0.so,
 mainly dynamic language bindings like GJS and PyGIi, will need to
 build-depend on libgirepository-1.0-dev in addition to this package.