Bug#1067582: gnuplot: please provide a profile to break B-D cycle
I added the requested profile, and fixed a few build bugs I encountered in the process. The patch series is here: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/gnuplot/-/commits/bug-1067582 Anton: can you please review and upload, if it looks good? Or let me know, and I'll make a Team upload.
Bug#1067582: gnuplot: please provide a profile to break B-D cycle
OK. I see what you're saying. I can do this today or tomorrow. Anton: are you good with that? I'd make a profile "nox-only" that elides the gnuplot-x11 and gnuplot-qt packages.
Bug#1067582: gnuplot: please provide a profile to break B-D cycle
Hi Dima, >- Today leptonlib Build-Depends on gnuplot-nox only if !nocheck. So if > you build leptonlib with testing disabled, there's no dependency on > gnuplot oh, that is maybe new? But I see other packages depending on gnuplot-nox, so this would still be very helpful. >- Today the gnuplot source package has a hard Build-Depends on wxt and > qt. Removing either of those (even in a specific profile) would make > it impossible to build gnuplot-qt and gnuplot-x11 packages with the > same set of functionality they normally have. Yes, I just hacked the package to just not build these two packages, basically by commenting lines from d/rules and removing the paragraphs from d/control (although the -N flag for dh would also do) and I got the expected gnuplot-nox and no -qt/-x11. (m68k only, the other arches will need this as well, so… still needed.) > If a profile was added > to loosen either of these dependencies, but that dramatically changed > the end product, would that be useful? Build profiles are allowed to remove packages from the result, as long as the other packages are not drastically changed. Since gnuplot builds x11, qt and nox separately anyway (and arch:all is also built separately), that would work. It may be best to look at another package where a build profile is used to elide a binary package to have an example of how this can go. If you want, I can search one for you, I’ve worked with several of them during the last few weeks. Thanks, //mirabilos -- 15:41⎜ Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld :-)
Bug#1067582: gnuplot: please provide a profile to break B-D cycle
Hi. I might be misunderstanding what you're asking specifically, but two notes: - Today leptonlib Build-Depends on gnuplot-nox only if !nocheck. So if you build leptonlib with testing disabled, there's no dependency on gnuplot - Today the gnuplot source package has a hard Build-Depends on wxt and qt. Removing either of those (even in a specific profile) would make it impossible to build gnuplot-qt and gnuplot-x11 packages with the same set of functionality they normally have. If a profile was added to loosen either of these dependencies, but that dramatically changed the end product, would that be useful? Thanks
Bug#1067582: gnuplot: please provide a profile to break B-D cycle
Source: gnuplot Version: 6.0.0+dfsg1-2 Severity: important Justification: t64 transition roadblock X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de There’s this cyclic Build-Depends chain: ffmpeg < tesseract < leptonlib < gnuplot < wxwidgets3.2 < opencv < ffmpeg Asides from that, gnuplot also depends on Qt5, which is another heavy thing to tackle. Please provide a profile with which the wxwidgets and Qt GUIs are elided. leptonlib B-D on gnuplot-nox so that should help already. Thanks!
