[hafqa] [hafqa] [Bug 3858] maemo-launcher build-depends on libhildondesktop-dev, which in turn build-depends on maemo-launcher-dev

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https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3858


guillem.jover at nokia.com changed:

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------- Comment #5 from guillem.jover at nokia.com  2008-11-18 19:41 GMT+3 -------
Just a note, cyclic Build-Depends are common in Debian, and that's one of
the first issue one stomps on when bootstrapping a new port for example,
but then they usually are not visible anymore. Of course those are desirable
to be fixed if feasible, but sometimes it's not. Consider pkg-config using
glib and glib needing pkg-config at build time, in that case pkg-config ships
an old snapshot of glib so that one can bootstrap it first.

(In reply to comment #3)
> Its the maemo-launcher Hildon booster  (/usr/lib/maemo-launcher/booster-gtk.so)
> that requires dependency to libhildondesktop-dev.  If it would be put to a
> separate source package, build deps should work fine like this:
> - libhildondesktop-dev -> maemo-launcher-dev
> - maemo-launcher-hildon-booster -> libhildondesktop-dev, maemo-launcher-dev

Yeah that'd be a possibility given the modular design of the launcher. Another
one would be to split the hildon-desktop from the library, and as I remember
there was already talk about that, maybe there's even an internal bug report.


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