Rebuild Spice-Gtk-0.7 via Debian Unstable with gobject-introspection enabled

Following bellow seems to be the best way to implement Qemu-kvm 0.15.0 spice enabled, Spice Server 0.8.2 and Spice-Gtk-0.7 with GObject-introspection enabled on Ubuntu 11.10 in meantime close to Beta 1. It’s based on PPA Building Spice-Gtk-0.7 via Debian Unstable with Gobject-introspection enabled published on 08/20/11. The original version of Spice-Gtk-0.7-2 came from Debian Unstable didn’t support GObject-introspection. Original version 0.7-2 was not supposed to install files like *.gir and *.typelib. View projects /collab-maint/spice-gtk.git/ summary.It also clearly shows that introspection went into Git Repo on 09/01/11. View [2] also regarding this issue.
Original version 0.7-2 also required fixes for debian/control and debian/rules. To understand better why this step should be undertaken, please , view Introspection Overivew

Now I feel myself like a detective whose 4 weeks old case, somebody wants to drop. It’s really funny, because lack of understanding GObject-introspection when porting Spice-Gtk-0.7 from F16 do Debian (Ubuntu) is not a crime.

Moreover file http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/spice-gtk/spice-gtk_0.7-2.dsc ( been located at http://mentors.debian.net/package/spice-gtk) doesn’t exist on the Net any longer,which has been used by myself for :
$ dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/spice-gtk/spice-gtk_0.7-2.dsc
$ dpkg-source -x spice-gtk_0.7-2.dsc

and spice-gtk-0.7-2 was a base I used to rebuild debian packages with introspection enabled, view my PPA
“Building Spice-Gtk-0.7 via Debian Unstable with gobject-introspection enabled”. It means I did it on my own . Everything had been done by myself from scratch.
I really did it from scratch but in different way and at different time. View another my PPA : Qemu-kvm 0.15.0 and Spice on Ubuntu 11.10 as of 08/10/11 and my article at LinuxToday Set up Spice-Gtk-0.7 on Ubuntu 11.10
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Now back to rebuild spice-gtk-0.7-2 done on 08/20/11 :-
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Port Debian Unstable Spice Server (been built with embedded libcelt051) to Ubuntu 11.10.
$ dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/spice/spice_0.8.2-2.dsc
$ dpkg-source -x spice_0.8.2-2.dsc
Port Debian Unstable version of Spice-Gtk-0.7 to Ubuntu 11.10.
$ dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/spice-gtk/spice-gtk_0.7-2.dsc
$ dpkg-source -x spice-gtk_0.7-2.dsc
It requires rebuild to enable gobject-introspection,which was done in PPA “Building Spice-Gtk-0.7 via Debian Unstable with gobject-introspection enabled” for Ubuntu 11.10.

Details may be viewed here :
Building Spice-Gtk-0.7 via Debian Unstable with gobject-introspection enabled

In particular,

1. Added –enable-introspection to debian/rules dh_auto_configure.

dh_auto_configure -B/build/buildd/spice-gtk-0.7/build-gtk3 -- \
--enable-smartcard=no --with-gtk=3.0 --disable-static --enable-introspection


dh_auto_configure -- \
--enable-smartcard=no --with-gtk=2.0 --disable-static --enable-introspection


2. Updated debian/control and added required dependencies

Build-Depends:
debhelper (>= 8.0.0),
libspice-protocol-dev (>= 0.8.1),
libspice-server-dev,
libpixman-1-dev (>= 0.17.7),
libgtk2.0-dev,
libgtk-3-dev,
libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.22),
libcairo2-dev (>= 1.2.0),
libpulse-dev,
python2.7,
python-gtk2-dev (>= 2.0.0),
python-pyparsing,
intltool,
libsasl2-dev,
libjpeg8-dev,
gobject-introspection, <=
libgirepository1.0-dev <=

The last two lines have been added.

3.Several debian/package_name.install files have been updated by adding right full path to corresponding library to accommodate installation of :-

/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/SpiceClientGLib-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/SpiceClientGtk-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/SpiceClientGtk-3.0.typelib
/usr/share/gir-1.0/SpiceClientGLib-2.0.gir
/usr/share/gir-1.0/SpiceClientGtk-3.0.gir

which otherwise won’t be installed.

Added to libspice-client-glib-2.0-4.install
line usr/lib/girepository-1.0/SpiceClientGLib-2.0.typelib

Added to libspice-client-gtk-2.0-1.install
line usr/lib/girepository-1.0/SpiceClientGtk-2.0.typelib

Added to libspice-client-gtk-3.0-1.install
line usr/lib/girepository-1.0/SpiceClientGtk-3.0.typelib

Added to libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev.install
line usr/share/gir-1.0/SpiceClientGLib-2.0.gir

Added to libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev.install
line usr/share/gir-1.0/SpiceClientGtk-3.0.gir

Qemu-kvm 0.15.0 was built with changed dependencies in the same PPA
Packages from https://launchpad.net/~bderzhavets/+archive/test-deb2 installed with no conflicts on Oneiric daily build 08/27/11. Spice sessions (via VirtManager) in QXL mode (64M vram) for install and for runtime have been run. The most recent snapshot for seabios supporting 64M vram for QXL device
uploaded to ppa:bderzhavets/test-deb2, ppa:bderzhavets/test-deb1

To install packages from PPA

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bderzhavet/test-deb2
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu qemu-common \
libspice-client-glib-2.0-4 libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev \
libspice-client-gtk-2.0-1 libspice-client-gtk-2.0-dev \
libspice-client-gtk-3.0-1 libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev \
python-spice-client-gtk spice-client-gtk spice-client \
seabios

$ sudo apt-get install virtinst virt-manager virt-viewer

You might have to disable apparmor profile for libvirtd

$ sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.libvirtd /etc/apparmor.d/disable/
$ sudo apparmor_parser -R /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.libvirtd
$ sudo adduser $USER kvm
$ sudo reboot

References
1. http://mentors.debian.net/package/spice-gtk
2. http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg3124003.html