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

[Reinhard Tartler]

Control: tag -1 help
Control: severity -1 wishlist

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2014-01-20 09:43:49)
>> 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. :/
>
> Progress on implementing such staged builds is tracked here:
> https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec
>
> I believe the "Build-Profiles" approach is the most realistic approach
> to implement (and can even be applied already now - Wookie probably
> knows best so ask him if interested in helping test it).

This seems a good approach to me. Patches that implement this are welcome.


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard