[Pkg-cmake-team] Bug#870209: Bug#870209: cmake: Break build dependency cycle with libjsoncpp

[Felix Geyer]

Hi,

On 31.07.2017 01:31, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> Source: cmake
> Version: 3.9.0-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> The cmake source package is currently not bootstrappable because even
> in the stage1 build profile, it still Build-Depends on libjsoncpp-dev
> which in turn Build-Depends on cmake.  It would be nice if stage1
> could be built without libjsoncpp-dev.  Of course, then the resulting
> binary package would be different, so probably that build profile
> would need to produce a "cmake-stage1" package.  (And then, probably a
> stage2 build would also be needed, which would provide the actual
> cmake package but still without cmake-qt-gui.)

I wouldn't mind building cmake against the bundled instead of the system
libraries in a build profile.
The resulting package should behave just the same.

However renaming the cmake binary package is a rather involved packaging
change that I'd like to avoid.

Felix