Source: curl Version: 8.6.0-3.2 Severity: wishlist Tags: trixie sid patch User: debian-cr...@lists.debian.org Usertags: staged-build
curl is involved in the critical path for re-bootstrapping 32-bit architectures for the time_t transition, and in general it's likely to be tied up in bootstrapping of every other new architecture, because important toolchain components like elfutils and cmake depend on it. One thing that can easily be done to break some of the cycles is to disable its optional support for openldap, which is involved in cycles like: curl, openldap, cyrus-sasl2, postgresql-16, gdb, elfutils, curl. The attached patch (also available from https://salsa.debian.org/debian/curl/-/merge_requests/23) adds a build-profile that disables this optional feature. I've confirmed that in the current state of unstable, curl can be built successfully in armel and armhf porterbox chroots with the combination of this build profile and nocheck. (An ulterior motive for me contributing this change is that in my day job, I'm involved in maintaining the Debian-based Steam Runtime, which contains a copy of curl with its packaging patched to disable LDAP, RTSP, RTMP and possibly other features that are unlikely to be used by game engines. When I'm back at work I'd be happy to look at contributing similar build-profiles to disable other optional bits if there is interest.) smcv
>From ae094c1e4b2b0ec943f39f2b6a6176091af20d33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 11:26:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] d/control: Add a build-profile that disables LDAP support openldap is involved in a cyclic build dependency (curl, openldap, cyrus-sasl2, postgresql-16, gdb, elfutils, curl). The ability to load LDAP resources is probably a relatively infrequently used feature of curl, and is straightforward to disable. Helps: #1036884 --- debian/control | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index de9ac8f69..ee188861b 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Build-Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.22.5), libgnutls28-dev, libidn2-dev, libkrb5-dev, - libldap2-dev, + libldap2-dev <!pkg.curl.noldap>, libnghttp2-dev, libpsl-dev, librtmp-dev, -- 2.43.0
