Adding build profiles to Debian GIS packages

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Dear Debian GIS package maintainers!

I have recently been trying to get a couple of packages like spatiality
and gdal build on sparc64 which turned out to be extremtely frustrating
due to the circular dependency chain which seems to affect many of
your packages.

Now, since the Debian tools recently added support for build profiles
[1], I was wondering whether you could maybe add support for that
to the relevant packages so that they can be easily bootstrapped for
new architectures.

The Haskell people recently were so kind to do that for their alex and
happy packages which made bootstrapping a piece of cake.

I'd also be very happy to hear about any possible tricks which could
help break the circular dependency that exists with your packages.

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec

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