Bug#735742: circular dependency with libav (libavformat-dev)

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Mon Jan 20 08:43:49 UTC 2014


Am Freitag, den 17.01.2014, 16:40 +0100 schrieb Helge Deller: 
> Package x264 has a circular build-dependency with libav (libavformat-dev).
> I mean, the libav package build-depends on x264, and vice versa.
> This prevented building x264 and libav on a new debian platform.
> I fixed it manually for the hppa platform, but nevertheless, I think this should be fixed.

This is already known and documented in libav's README.source. However,
as long as we don't have staged Build-Depends or Build-Recommends in
Debian, we see little chance to fix this. :/

- Fabian



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