Hi Helmut, On 2025-06-12 22:19, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi Aurelien, > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 10:08:03PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > The patch got accepted. Is it something we need to have in trixie, or > > have you found a way to workaround the issue in the cross bootstrap > > process? > > Thank you! I'm sorry for not having gotten back to you here. gnupg2 > accepted a build profile pkg.gnupg2.gpgvonly that severely trims its > Build-Depends and also gets libftdi out the loop. There is no urgency > about this change.
Ok, thanks for the detailed explanation. > > In addition, with libboost-dev removed from Build-Depends and from the > > libftdipp1-dev Depends, do we still need to add a nopython profile? This > > part is not trivial. > > If such a profile poses a non-trivial maintenance cost, it probably is > better to not have it in the first place. For now, please consider > libftdi irrelevant to cross bootstrap again. I note though that dropping > boost without also dropping Python likely is not very useful in > practical terms. > > > Note that the libboost-test-dev <!nocheck> Build-Depends is still needed. > > Dependencies annotates <!nocheck> generally do not affect bootstrapping > (native or cross). If one desires running tests, the way to go is first > to nocheck bootstrap and then to rebuild stuff with tests enabled. > > Should we close this bug as "not needed" already? The boost change will be in the next upstream release anyway (so for forky), so I guess closing the bug as "not needed" is the best option. It's always possible to reopen it later in case Regards Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://aurel32.net
