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.

gobject introspection contains tools to generate and handle the introspection data.

this package contains the xml sources for introspection data of the following libraries:

* avahi
* babl
* cairo
* fontconfig
* freetype2
* gconf
* opengl
* gnomekeyring
* goocanvas
* gssdp
* gupnp
* libxml2
* libnotify
* libsoup
* poppler
* vte
* xft
* xlib
the actual introspection data is shipped in the relevant gir1.0-* packages.