Bug#870176: libdrm: Make source package bootstrappable

Stephen Kitt <[email protected]> Fri, 1 May 2026 12:57:30 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.x
Message-ID	<20260501125730.544facb2__12969.419294835$1777633164$gmane$org@heffalump.sk2.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:17:29 -0700 Daniel Schepler <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Currently, libdrm is involved in build dependency cycles such as:
> 
> libdrm Build-Depends on valgrind
> valgrind Build-Depends on gdb
> gdb Build-Depends on texlive-base
> texlive-base Depends on texlive-binaries
> texlive-bin Build-Depends on libgd-dev
> libgd2 Build-Depends on libtiff-dev
> tiff Build-Depends on freeglut3-dev
> freeglut Build-Depends on libgl1-mesa-dev
> mesa Build-Depends on libdrm-dev

I think this was fixed by gdb qualifying its build-dependency on texlive-base
with <!nodoc>, wasn’t it? That way gdm is bootstrappable which breaks the
cycle.

Regards,

Stephen

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