Bug#1082212: Depends/Build-Depends cycle with libgtk-4-dev

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 7:45 AM Simon Richter <sjr at debian.org> wrote:
> when bootstrapping gtk 4, libsysprof-4-dev is one of the indirect build
> dependencies of gtk-4, but itself depends on libgtk-4-dev.
>
> It would be nice if there was a way to bootstrap, e.g. splitting off the
> UI classes into a separate libsysprof-4-ui-dev and a build profile
> without these packages, which would allow building these packages in
> multiple stages.

I believe this is already done. Please check debian/control for both
sysprof and gtk4.

For sysprof, GTK4 is only a build dependency on a specific list of
architectures. Additionally, there is a pkg.sysprof.nogui build
profile to disable that even for those architectures.

For GTK4, there is a specific list of architectures for sysprof.
Notably, GTK4 and other libraries with a sysprof build dependency only
need libsysprof-capture-4-dev which does not need GTK4 and is built on
many more architectures.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha