Bug#891873: libidn2: help bootstrapping by reducing Build-Depends

[Andreas Beckmann]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 22:34:45 +0100 Helmut Grohne <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'd like to ask you for another favour. Can we remove the whole gtkdoc
> stack from Build-Depends? e.g. dblatex is presently unsatisfiable for
> cross and it won't be any easier for native bootstraps.
> 
> The good thing is that we can do entirely without build profiles. Just
> move the whole caboodle to Build-Depends-Indep! Of course we must be
> careful then. We must configure without --enable-gtk-doc and notably, we
> must not run gtkdocize. The attached patch does all of that and thus
> speeds up arch-only builds. Please consider applying it.

Hi Helmut,

nobody answered so far :-(
I just tracked down a long chain of uninstallable B-D on kfreebsd-* to
this bug ... ending with a bootstrap failure for libidn2 due to a
dependency cycle between gnupg2 and libidn2 (gnupg2 needs libidn2-dev,
libidn2-doc needs (transitively) gnupg).
Maybe you just want to NMU it. Your patch looks sensible, but I haven't
tried it.


Andreas