On 03/21/2014 03:43 PM, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > The point is: is it possible to build without libv8-dev on those > archs and still having a working product? In that case we could > change the b-d chain appropriately.
Yes, we drop or loosen the b-d on libv8-dev and still have a useable package for osgEarth. On 03/21/2014 03:37 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > What's the reason to make it mandatory? As far as I can tell from the > diff between 2.4 and 2.5 it's still optional upstream... In the spirit of enabling most functionality of osgEarth I chose to build depend on libv8-dev. It has the welcome side benefit of limiting the number of architectures on which the full QGIS dependency chain is supported. When we don't require libv8-dev for osgEarth, I expect it to FTBFS on some of the ports, and the same goes for whose osgearth-dev build dependency is satisfied when osgearth is fixed on the ports. The topic of limiting the architectures for QGIS were discussed in the osgEarth 2.5 thread on debian-gis@ last month, see: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.gis/717 While I'd like to support the ports as much as possible, it's very time consuming, not only because I need to request guest-accounts from DSA first. The security status of libv8 is also a bit worrisome, and another reason to drop the build dependency. We just need to deal with a number of FTBFSes for osgEarth and QGIS then. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/E88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
