On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:02:34AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I believe circular build-dependencies for testsuite needs can - and > should be addressed by marking such build-dependencies appropriately, > rather than skipping them - for exactly situations like this.
Sure. > Question then what the appropriate way to express cycle-breaking > hints... :-) I believe the way to express this is to annotate the build dependency with <!nocheck>. (Though build cycles are probably not much of a deal with arch:all packages in the first place.) -- Niko