Bug#742273: osgearth: unsatisfiable libv8-dev build-dep

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

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

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