Bug#975074: libefreet-bin has circular Depends on libeio1

Ross Vandegrift rvandegrift at debian.org
Fri Jan 28 04:49:43 GMT 2022


Control: tags 975074 wontfix
Control: tags 963881 wontfix

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 08:58:43AM -0800, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> EFL's various libraries have dependency cycles between them.  We haven't been
> able to robustly eliminate them with split binary packages.  The next step is
> to bundle them into a single binary package.
> 
> Upstream is working on linking all of them into a single lib.  I'd like to hold
> off on the bundling until that is ready or abandoned.

I played around with this and wrote about the results at [1].  The result was
more complex, less maintainable, and didn't clearly result in the elimination
of all cycles.

Ross

[1] - https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-e-devel/2021-May/004009.html



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