On 01/23/2016 10:30 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > Many of our packages? Do you have specifics, because I'm only aware of > two circular dependencies which only affect a small subset of our > packages (but include the most important ones)?
I have around 15 packages which depend directly or indirectly on gdal and are currently BD-Uninstallable because gdal is BD-Unsintallable: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gdal&suite=sid > I don't have time to look into build profiles now, and I expect them to > only be useful in the sort terms until librt-topology can be used > instead of liblwgeom for spatialite. Motivating the rt-topology devs to > release seems more fruitful than investing time into build profiles that > won't be used long. Build profiles aren't normally difficult to implement for most package maintainers as they know which features they can temporarily turn off during bootstrapping. I assume that complete rebootstrappability is going to be a release goal at some point. Maybe not for Stretch but maybe for Buster because we really need to get the archive in a shape where we can bootstrap onto a new architecture without lots of manual internvention. > I'm not aware of upgrade problems caused by the current situation, if > they exist and are common we should consider dropping the liblwgeom > dependency already and live with the reduced functionality. But as far > as I can tell that isn't the case. Check your packages on any of the ports architectures, they are BD-Uninstallable on all of these. I have tried to untangle the dependency mess but I failed with the amount of time spent. So, before spending much more time on the issue, I thought it might be a good idea to ask the package maintainers for help. I would like to get your packages build on these architectures, but I currently don't know how to resolve the circular dependency. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
