Source: freetype Version: 2.12.1+dfsg-1 Severity: important User: [email protected] Usertags: rebootstrap X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
freetype participates in architecture bootstrap. As such, it must be careful about its Build-Depends. It now added librsvg2-dev, which is built from librsvg, which Build-Depends on rustc, which pulls llvm. This totally breaks architecture cross bootstrap. Beyond breaking practical architecture bootstrap, it also breaks theoretical architecture bootstrap, because librsvg Build-Depends on libfreetype-dev. This poses a cycle that cannot be solved. As such, I request that you temporarily revert the librsvg2-dev dependency. Given that this breaks bootstrap ci, I ask for urgency here. If you lack time, I can offer NMUing it. As the udeb package is already built without rsvg, the same should be applicable to the main package. Then, we should cooperatively figure out a way to meet freetype's need. It is a bit unclear to me why freetype needs rsvg. Can you shed some light on that part? Depending on the answer to that question, multiple options are available: * If it is only used for testing, it can be annotated <!nocheck> and is thus removed from any bootstrap issues. * Judging the changlog, it could be demos that need rsvg without having the main library actually use rsvg. In that case, it would be easy to hide freetype2-demos behind a build profile (say pkg.freetype.nodemos) and conditionalize the dependency to that profile. * Possibly, the need is more unconditional and we need to solve the loop in some other package. At this time, a quick, temporary revert and coordination is needed. Helmut
