Bug#887046: libxext: Please make w3m Build-Depends-Indep
Control: tags -1 + pending
On 2018-01-13 01:09 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Source: libxext
> Version: 2:1.3.3-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
>
> w3m ends up depending on mesa, which ends up depending on libxext,
> which build-depends on w3m. This is thus making a loop in architecture
> bootstrap. Could you move the w3m Build-Dep to Build-Depends-Indep to
> avoid this loop? Other depends could be moved there such as xsltproc
> etc.
I have done that in git and also made a few other cleanups to the
package, such as switching debian/rules to dh and killing xsfbs[1].
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/lib/libxext/commits/debian-unstable
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