On May 3, 2012 10:20 AM, Andres Mejia amejia...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 3, 2012 9:30 AM, Pino Toscano p...@debian.org wrote:
Alle giovedì 3 maggio 2012, Andres Mejia ha scritto:
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Pino Toscano p...@debian.org wrote:
Package: libav
Version: 6:0.8.1-7
Severity: important
Hi,
libav 6:0.8.1-7 reenables the use of opencv... which itself uses
libav libraries. This currently makes libav unbuildable on mipsel
and hurd-i386, and generically makes libav no more bootstrap'able
without having itself compiled already.
Could you please drop the opencv usage again, please?
What could be done instead is a binary only upload with opencv
support disabled (i.e. use dpkg-buildpackage -B). Doing it on our
end will not require changing the version. Once this package is
uploaded, the release team can then be asked to do a binNMU for
these archs, which will bring back opencv support since the archive
will contain the regular *.debian.tar.gz changes that included
opencv.
I believe this is better than doing a full build on all archs without
opencv, then doing another build with opencv.
This mess (which is only a mess, not a clean solution) does not solve at
all the fact that you cannot do a clean build of libav without having
libav compiled already (for opencv).
I don't see this as a viable solution, especially if in the future the
epoch is raised bringing again conflicts between the old libav libraries
and the new one.
--
Pino Toscano
I'm not entirely certain how build circular dependency issues like this
are resolved. Perhaps we should ask for help from the toolchain package
maintainers or debian-devel.
~ Andres
Hello all,
I would like to know if there is a good (perhaps best) approach in
resolving issues with packages with circular build dependencies.
Libav has various circular build dependencies including.
libav - opencv - libav
libav - x264 - libav
libav - x264 - gpac - libav
I found some mention of this issue at [1]. This however doesn't offer any
clear solution.
1. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianBootstrap
~ Andres
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