Re: RFS: gnustep-base (updated package)

[Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>]

Luca Falavigna wrote:
> Uploaded.

Thanks!  Unfortunately it failed to build almost everywhere, because
gnustep-make's dependency on gnustep-common is too loose.  I'll
request give-backs once -make is installed on all archs, and will fix
this with the next upload.

> Also, could you please consider including patch I prepared for Ubuntu?
> http://patches.ubuntu.com/g/gnustep-base/gnustep-base_1.19.3-1ubuntu1.patch

Hmm, how come that gnustep-base-common is in Build-Depends-Indep?  Are
such things allowed in theory and practice?  It seems to me that there
will be a bootstrap issue, e.g. for new ports.  Or maybe not, since
-common is arch:all and buildds use -B.  I'm not sure, but it doesn't
look very elegant to me.

Anyway, some time ago a different solution was proposed:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnustep-dev/2010-02/msg00035.html

I'll test it and if it works, will ask upstream to comment/consider
the patch for inclusion.