Bug#838831: libcups2-dev has circular Depends on libcupsimage2-dev

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 +wontfix +help

Hi Bill,

Le dimanche, 25 septembre 2016, 16.53:04 h CEST Bill Allombert a écrit :
> There is a circular dependency between libcups2-dev and libcupsimage2-dev:
> 
> libcups2-dev 	        :Depends: libcupsimage2-dev (= 2.2.0-2)
> libcupsimage2-dev 	:Depends: libcups2-dev (= 2.2.0-2)

Indeed, thanks for the pointer.

The problem here is that the circular dependency is (as the current source 
code is) needed:

libcupsimage2-dev has:
	/usr/include/cups/raster.h
	… which contains:
	#include "cups.h"

libcups2-dev has:
	/usr/include/cups/cups.h
	and
	/usr/include/cups/ppd.h
	… which contains:
	#include "raster.h"

As it stands, I don't see (and it's probably invasive) how to untangle this, 
hence +wontfix and +help.

-- 
Cheers,
    OdyX

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