Source: menu-cache Version: 1.0.2-3 Severity: wishlist Currently, the menu-cache and the libfm have a circular B-D (build-dependency) on each other that probably could be avoided.
Such a circular dependency makes it hard/impossible to bootstrap new architectures for those package. It seems that libfm heavily depends on menu-cache, but menu-cache only uses fm-extra.h at one tiny spot. Currently, this circular B-D affects an FTBFS on powerpcspe for the topmenu-gtk package [1]. Other solution would be some sort of bootstrap package upload series for the powerpcspe architecture (however, this will not improve the situation with new architectures becoming supported by Debian). [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=topmenu-gtk -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)