Hi Niko, > the recently added libmonkey-patch-perl dependency in > libfile-stripnondeterminism-perl has unfortunately resulted in a build > dependency cycle […] > I see this new dependency was introduced for normalizing zip archives > (#858431) by changing the Archive::Zip behaviour on the fly. Is this > fixable on the Archive::Zip side?
I guess in theory but if I recall the details correctly, I don't /think/ this was going to be a trivial patch to Archive::Zip and my Perl-fu is/was a bit weak. Would pkg-perl apply and upload a patch anyway? Here's a link to my long comment given that I just dug it up for my own benefit: https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/strip-nondeterminism/commit/f40f555085eeb086bfd4ee1fca1012550790a12d#40676c4ac877689b2966fdabb71ac3686de48aeb_227_224 ... although I would concede that this doesn't speak to the plausibility of the aforementioned patch. > Alternatively, would it be possible to weaken the cycle somehow, for > instance by making this dependency optional and having the packages that > actually need it declare an explicit build dependency ? Would adding a <!nocheck> restriction be of use to you? Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org 🍥 chris-lamb.co.uk `-
