Question on bootstrapping pygobject

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 04/19/2016 06:33 AM, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> So as far as I can see, the only choice here is to split gnome-pkg-tools into
> two binary packages where one (e.g. gnome-cdbs-rules) contains the
> pieces that don't need Python and the other contains the rest and
> Depends on the former. Then src:pygobject can switch its Build-Depends
> and no other package is affected. No stage involved. But this all
> depends on the correctness of the analysis above.

This seems very reasonable to me and agrees with Barry Warsaw who
has already suggested this solution in a bug report against
gnome-pkg-tools [1].

It would be great if such a deal could be implemented as currently
this circular dependency is causing lots of headache for anyone
bootstrapping Debian to a new architecture.

Adrian

> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790782

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