Bug#671302: libav: circular dependency between libav and opencv

[Andres Mejia]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Pino Toscano <pino at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: libav
> Version: 6:0.8.1-7
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
>
> libav 6:0.8.1-7 reenables the use of opencv... which itself uses libav
> libraries. This currently makes libav unbuildable on mipsel and
> hurd-i386, and generically makes libav no more bootstrap'able without
> having itself compiled already.
> Could you please drop the opencv usage again, please?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Pino
>
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What could be done instead is a binary only upload with opencv support
disabled (i.e. use dpkg-buildpackage -B). Doing it on our end will not
require changing the version. Once this package is uploaded, the
release team can then be asked to do a binNMU for these archs, which
will bring back opencv support since the archive will contain the
regular *.debian.tar.gz changes that included opencv.

I believe this is better than doing a full build on all archs without
opencv, then doing another build with opencv.

-- 
~ Andres