On 12/18/2011 12:23 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:13:05PM +0100, Steffen Möller wrote: >>> I just tried to install mgltools-pmv in sid and autodocktools was installed >>> as well. So there should be no problem for the user >>> but the cycle still seems to be present!? >> >> These complaints about circular runtime (not build time) dependencies are >> truly annoying to me. > > Finally circular dependencies are annoying in several situations and it > makes perfectly sense to avoid them.
Only if it is cheap. I rate the synchronicity with upstream's code management higher. Much higher. I veto any change as long as I am one of the uploaders or it is requested by upstream. >> I refuse to care about them if a >> fix is not trivial. If I am not erroneous, neither PVM nor autodocktools >> starts without the other package. "Depends" is right. >> Back then I have split the package up to match the upstream CVS repository. >> There was no real benefit from it. So, if those >> complaints about this package in non-free continue, we should either >> aggregate all of mgltools or remove it all. > > I actually very much in favour of building mgltools from plain upstream > source as it is provided upstream in one source package and create > different source packages. When doing this refactoring a package > <name>-common could be created which is needed by more than one binary > package. While the packaging of this package is a bit more complex it > finally reduces the maintenance effort we had in the past. I disagree. The build process is mostly automated and works. There are more important things to work on. Promised. Best, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
