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
