[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#747822: perlmagick: build dependency cycle

[Niko Tyni]

Package: perlmagick
Version: 8:6.7.7.10+dfsg-1
Severity: important
User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
Usertags: perl-5.20-transition
X-Debbugs-Cc: perl at packages.debian.org

This package needs to be rebuilt in the upcoming Perl 5.20 transition,
but there's a build dependency cycle preventing that.

 perlmagick is built from src:imagemagick
 src:imagemagick build-depends on graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
 graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat depends on html2ps
 html2ps depends on perlmagick

So when perlmagick becomes uninstallable (because perlapi-5.18.2 isn't
provided anymore), its build dependencies can't be installed so it
can't be rebuilt. This cycle needs to be broken somehow.

(Perl 5.20 will be released in a couple of weeks, and we're aiming
 to get it in jessie, so this bug will probably become release critical
 later.)
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org