On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 12:09:23PM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote: > Source: gdb > Version: 7.12-6 > Severity: wishlist > > The gdb source package's Build-Depends on texlive-base is creating > some build dependency cycles - for example: > > texlive-base Depends on texlive-binaries > texlive-bin Build-Depends on libgs-dev > ghostscript Build-Depends on libopenjp2-7-dev > openjpeg2 Build-Depends on dh-apache2 > apache2 Build-Depends on libaprutil1-dev > apr-util Build-Depends on default-libmysqlclient-dev > default-libmysqlclient-dev Depends on libmariadbclient-dev-compat > mariadb-10.1 Build-Depends on gdb > > It would be nice if gdb could be bootstrapped without the > documentation. Probably the easiest way would be to split out the > documentation into a gdb-doc package, and then move texlive-base to > Build-Depends-Indep.
I would need to have a closer look why we have texlive-base listed, as we already split out gdb-doc in a separate non-free source package. If you could help testing that would be great, it might take me a bit longer to work on that, but it certainly is for a great goal (bootstrapping). Regards
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