On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:43:59AM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > Hello, Folks. > > I've found a kind of a circular dependency when checking for versions > of perl and linux-2.6 packages. > > linux-2.6 won't build because it build-depends on dpkg-dev, which > depends on perl5 and perl-modules. perl5 is provided by perl, which is > version 5.8.8-7. 5.8.8-8 and onwards won't build because they > build-depends on gcc-4.2. Actually, we also need a sourceful upload of gcc-defaults [gcc (>= 4:4.2)] (see bug #451190). gcc-4.2_4.2.2-3 built fine and is already in the archive. > Well, gcc-4.2 won't build because it requires a patch which is only on > 2.6.24-rc1 vanilla, so we shouldn't expect it in debian unless the > patch is applied for 2.6.23, right? Is that true? Could I get a reference for that? Otherwise I can requeue the build. > Well, that would be fine if linux-2.6 was not depwaiting for perl >= > 5.8.8-8. It is because dpkg-dev depends on perl-modules, which is arch: > all. So, its version in the repository is 5.8.8-12, which depends on > perl >= 5.8.8-8. I don't believe we usually autobuild linux-2.6. I believe Christian usually uploads them directly once he's satisfied with the m68k patches. > I think this problema happened here because gcc 4.2 got stuck. But I missed gcc-4.2 getting stuck. Usually I try to keep up with blockers and the toolchain. > having a arch: all package going into the repository without its > dependencies in there may give us trouble every time we get stuck with > some package that would depend on it, right? Should we bring this > concern to debian-devel? Old news. I wish there was some better scheme. > If not, what can we do in respect to linux-2.6, gcc-4.2 and perl? I > know there are lots of more trouble in toolchain, be it regressions in > the compiler, threads or anything else. > > However, these packages would, at least, build (I expect so) if a very > simple patch in the build system of linux-2.6 would be applied and > perl-modules 5.8.8-12 were replaced by perl-modules 5.8.8-7 in the > archive. Then, we should have linux-2.6 built, gcc-4.2 built and perl > 5.8.8-12 built, in that order. Point me at the patch, I'll patch one of the buildds. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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