Bug#870669: libidn: Make source package bootstrappable

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hello,

2017-11-04 23:09 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
> Hi,
>
> 2017-09-13 14:19 Helmut Grohne:
> > retitle 870669 move gcj-jdk from Build-Depends to Build-Depends-Indep
> > tags 870669 + patch
> > severity 870669 normal
> > user address@hidden
> > usertags 870669 + rebootstrap
> > thanks
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 03:14:48PM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> > > It would be nice if the Build-Depends on gcj-jdk could be moved to
> > > Build-Depends-Indep.  (I did recently see notifications that gcj will
> > > be going away in Debian soon.  But even if you switch over to using
> > > default-jdk, that would still create a build dependency cycle since
> > > openjdk-8 Build-Depends on libcups2-dev also.)
> >
> > I second that. The gcj-jdk dependency also breaks cross compilation and
> > moving it to Build-Depends-Indep significantly simplifies debian/rules
> > as the attached patch demonstrates. In particular, it removes all those
> > different(!) architecture lists.
>
> Since libidn is a very important package for bootstrapping, it would be
> very nice to fix this.
>
> The patch seems a net improvement to the package, even in the absence of
> other benefits.
>
> Would it be possible to include it in future uploads, or is there any
> reason against including it, from the maintainers point of view?
>
>
> > Though I'd much rather see libidn go. Most rdeps but hesiod have moved
> > on to libidn2-0.
>
> Since it's unlikely to happen very soon (from a comment by upstream in
> this report), I think that it shouldn't stop this being applied.

I am preparing a NMU for this fix.

To the maintainers: if you don't want it applied please speak soon, so I
don't waste time on a fix that will be reverted :)


Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <address@hidden>