Bug#469785: Possible circular build dependency

Loïc Minier lool at dooz.org
Fri Mar 7 09:43:31 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 06, 2008, Patrick Ramsey wrote:
> Building this package results in the included python script
> 'common/gst-xmlinspect.py' being called, which in turn imports
> 'pygst', which is part of the python-gst0.10 package.  However,
> libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 does not declare python-gst0.10 as a
> build dependency.  Moreover, python-gst0.10 does declare
> libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 as an install dependency, the upshot
> of which is that you must already have a working version of
> libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 installed in order to build it.

 But is common/gst-xmlinspect.py being called in Debian builds?  I
 already spotted this loop in the past, but upstream bootstrapped the
 loop for us by shipping pre-generated stuff.

-- 
Loïc Minier





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