Debian 11 + Caja, couple problems with build and running time

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Hi there,

I've been playing around with the extension quite a while in my Debian 10 + XFCE + Caja. All worked fine so far. But recently I decided to update to Debian 11 to have Gtk3 full support in XFCE (4.14.x, etc), and play a little bit.

A fresh install didn't work,

Build issue

meson .. --prefix /usr -Dfile_manager=caja
The Meson build system
Version: 0.54.3
Source dir: /home/ibenito/git/github/caja-git
Build dir: /home/ibenito/git/github/caja-git/build
Build type: native build
Project name: caja-git
Project version: 1.18.0
C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 10.1.0 "cc (Debian 10.1.0-6) 10.1.0")
C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.35
Host machine cpu family: x86_64
Host machine cpu: x86_64
Message: Looking for dependencies
Program python2 found: YES (/usr/bin/python2)
Program intltool-merge found: YES (/usr/bin/intltool-merge)
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)
Run-time dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.64.4
Run-time dependency gobject-2.0 found: YES 2.64.4
Run-time dependency gobject-introspection-1.0 found: YES 1.64.1
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.16.3)
Run-time dependency gtk-3.0 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)

../meson.build:9:0: ERROR: Dependency "gtk-3.0" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake

A full log can be found at /home/ibenito/git/github/caja-git/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt` 

It seems gtk libs are missing, althought they are all installed, it seems there are some differences in this package https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/gir1.2-gtk-3.0, with my current knowlegde I only can asume that the missing "+" in the naming from GTK to GTK+ is causing meson to not found the library.

A very dirty solution has been to rehuse the previous compilation from Debian 10, so far so good, it can be installed.

Run issue

Oh, Python 3 is here. With some magic of 2to3 utility over /usr/share/caja-git/src everything works just fine.

I've been playing only for an hour with the problems, with the second part surelly I can wrote a PR, because I develop with Python everyday... for the first part I'm a bit lost.

Cheers,

Ismael