Question on bootstrapping pygobject

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 19/04/16 09:06, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 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.

I have just dropped those dependencies along with the script that required them.

I have also fixed #821170 about the wayland loop.

Cheers,
Emilio