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and subject line Bug#1077534: fixed in libvisual 0.4.2-5
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regarding libvisual: Please break libvisual / libsdl dependency cycle
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Source: libvisual
Version: 0.4.2-2
Severity: important
Hello,
There is currently a build-dep cycle involving libvisual:
libvisual -> libsdl1.2 -> libsdl2 -> fcitx -> qtbase-opensource-src ->
pulseaudio -> gst-plugins-base1.0 -> libvisual
The attached patch breaks it by introducing a very trivial
pkg.libvisual.nosdl build profile that simply disables building the
lv tool.
Samuel
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Samuel
After watching my newly-retired dad spend two weeks learning how to make a new
folder, it became obvious that "intuitive" mostly means "what the writer or
speaker of intuitive likes".
(Bruce Ediger, [email protected], in comp.os.linux.misc, on X the
intuitiveness of a Mac interface.)
--- debian/control.original 2024-07-29 16:53:39.000000000 +0000
+++ debian/control 2024-07-29 17:01:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
Build-Depends: autoconf-archive,
autopoint,
debhelper-compat (= 13),
- libsdl1.2-dev,
+ libsdl1.2-dev <!pkg.libvisual.nosdl>,
pkg-config
Standards-Version: 4.6.2
Homepage: http://libvisual.org
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
Package: lv-tool-0.4
Section: sound
Architecture: any
+Build-Profiles: <!pkg.libvisual.nosdl>
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, libvisual-0.4-plugins (>= 0.4.2)
Description: tool from Libvisual to visualize a music from audio players
Libvisual is a generic visualization framework that allows applications
--- debian/rules.original 2024-07-29 16:54:50.000000000 +0000
+++ debian/rules 2024-07-29 17:04:57.000000000 +0000
@@ -4,11 +4,17 @@
export GETTEXT_PACKAGE=libvisual-0.4
+CONFIGURE = --enable-static
+
+ifneq (,$(filter pkg.libvisual.nosdl,$(DEB_BUILD_PROFILES)))
+CONFIGURE += --disable-lv-tool --disable-examples
+endif
+
%:
dh $@
override_dh_auto_configure:
- dh_auto_configure -- --enable-static
+ dh_auto_configure -- $(CONFIGURE)
override_dh_installdocs:
dh_installdocs -A AUTHORS NEWS README TODO
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: libvisual
Source-Version: 0.4.2-5
Done: Federico Molara <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libvisual, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Federico Molara <[email protected]> (supplier of updated libvisual package)
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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:32:02 +0100
Source: libvisual
Architecture: source
Version: 0.4.2-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Federico Molara <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Federico Molara <[email protected]>
Closes: 921622 1055631 1077534
Changes:
libvisual (0.4.2-5) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Adopt package. (Closes: #921622)
* Set myself as Maintainer. Thanks to the Debian QA Group.
* debian/control:
- Minor reordering with wrap-and-sort.
* debian/copyright:
- Drop obsolete Free Software Foundation postal address from the LGPL-2+
license text.
* Minor packaging cleanups.
* Apply German translation as quilt patch. (Closes: #1055631)
* Add optional build profile pkg.libvisual.nosdl to break the historic
libvisual ↔ libsdl1.2 bootstrap-dependency cycle. (Closes: #1077534)
- The cycle no longer appears in the current archive, but retaining a
profile prevents regressions and simplifies constrained bootstraps.
- lv-tool is the only component requiring SDL, therefore the profile
disables it cleanly (--disable-lv-tool --disable-examples).
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