On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 04:08:18PM -0300, Chris Lamb wrote: > > the recently added libmonkey-patch-perl dependency in > > libfile-stripnondeterminism-perl has unfortunately resulted in a build > > dependency cycle > […] > > I see this new dependency was introduced for normalizing zip archives > > (#858431) by changing the Archive::Zip behaviour on the fly. Is this > > fixable on the Archive::Zip side? > > I guess in theory but if I recall the details correctly, I don't > /think/ this was going to be a trivial patch to Archive::Zip and my > Perl-fu is/was a bit weak. Would pkg-perl apply and upload a patch > anyway?
I'm sorry I haven't had time to look at this properly (and still don't). Obviously features would be best developed upstream. Archive-Zip seems to be alive if quiet. But a bug against libarchive-zip-perl would be a good start (with or without a patch). We can then take it upstream if you'd prefer that. > > Alternatively, would it be possible to weaken the cycle somehow, for > > instance by making this dependency optional and having the packages that > > actually need it declare an explicit build dependency ? > > Would adding a <!nocheck> restriction be of use to you? No, I'm afraid not. I was thinking of having libfile-stripnondeterminism-perl recommend libmonkey-patch-perl rather than depend on it, or something like that. The only Build-Depends that is relevant here is libsub-identify-perl -> debhelper. The problem is with runtime dependencies: debhelper needs to stay installable even when libsub-identify-perl has become uninstallable and needs a rebuild. One more alternative might be to make a derived class like Archive::Zip::Normalizing or Archive::Zip::DebianReproducible or whatever and package that separately, avoiding the "monkey patching" part. Not sure how feasible that is to implement though. Hope this clarifies, -- Niko _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list Reproducible-builds@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds
