GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things suchas trees, hashes, lists, and strings. It is a useful general-purposeC library used by projects such as GTK+, GIMP, and GNOME..This package is needed to compile programs against libglib2.0-0,as only it includes the header files and static libraries (optionally)needed for compiling..GObject-Introspection metadata for this library can be found in thelibgirepository1.0-dev package.