Source: gpm Version: 1.20.4-6.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi,
Thanks for taking care of the gpm Debian package! As part of this year's "Bootstrappable Debian" Google Summer of Code project I took a look at gpm to break a circular build dependency as noted in the "Feedback Arc Set" section of http://bootstrap.debian.net/amd64/ and, more specifically, at http://bootstrap.debian.net/source/gpm_1.20.4-6.1.html - texlive-base depends on texlive-binaries - texlive-binaries depends on libxmu6 - src:libxmu build-depends on w3m - w3m depends on libgpm2 - src:gpm build-depends on texlive-base The thing is, the gpm build does not need any of the texlive tools at all; the only way they might be used is if the 'ps' target is invoked in the doc/ subdirectory, which the Debian package build does not do - Debian is content with "just" the .info and .html documentation of gpm. So what do you think about the attached trivial patch that drops the build dependency on texlive? I have verified that the binary packages are the same (well, of course, with the "normal" differences in the build IDs and the timestamps embedded in the static library files), so this indeed does not affect the Debian package build at all. Thanks again for your work on gpm and on Debian in general! G'luck, Peter -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 If this sentence didn't exist, somebody would have invented it.
From 4cb4eca744e5f83e6cf490b45fcd3f1b16aa03b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 18:52:32 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Drop the texlive dependency, not used at all. No texlive tools are used in the package build. The only way they might be used is if the 'ps' target is invoked in the doc/ subdirectory, which the Debian package build does not do - Debian is content with "just" the .info and .html documentation of gpm. Dropping the texlive build dependency will, in addition to greatly reducing the build time and the list of needed packages, also break a circular build dependency - gpm is one of the packages listed in the "Feedback Arc Set" of http://bootstrap.debian.net/amd64/ because of the following dependency loop: - src:texlive-base build-depends on src:libxmu - src:libxmu build-depends on w3m - w3m depends on libgpm2 - src:gpm build-depends on texlive-base --- debian/control | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 53457f9..04cc9cc 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Priority: optional Standards-Version: 3.9.3 Homepage: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/gpm/ Build-Depends: autoconf, autotools-dev, quilt, debhelper (>= 6.0.7), mawk | awk, - bison, texlive-base, texinfo, texi2html + bison, texinfo, texi2html Package: gpm Priority: optional -- 2.0.0.rc2
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