Re: BD-Uninstallable due to circullar dependency

2015-07-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org writes: It should just be forced despite the bd-uninstallable. sysvinit-utils and util-linux are essential, so they're already in the build chroot, so whether a newer version is available and uninstallable doesn't matter. Not if the B-D is versioned,

Re: BD-Uninstallable due to circullar dependency

2015-07-20 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Paul Wise (2015-07-20 07:31:37) The general solution for build dependency cycles is build profiles: https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec while correct in theory (the syntax is supported by dpkg and apt), the buildds are not yet able to make use of build profile information to

Re: BD-Uninstallable due to circullar dependency

2015-07-20 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:46:30 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: Hi, While investigating libspiro build, I found BD-Uninstallable on powerpcspe. http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=libspirosuite=sid Dependency installability problem for libspiro on powerpcspe:

BD-Uninstallable due to circullar dependency

2015-07-19 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, While investigating libspiro build, I found BD-Uninstallable on powerpcspe. http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=libspirosuite=sid Dependency installability problem for libspiro on powerpcspe: sysvinit-utils depends on missing: - util-linux (= 2.26.2-3) and util-linux

Re: BD-Uninstallable due to circullar dependency

2015-07-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Hideki Yamane wrote: How do we fix it? The general solution for build dependency cycles is build profiles: https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec However, in this case it appears the Depends is a workaround to help with smooth upgrades to jessie and could