Hi again, > However, I have an alternative proposal which would avoid the problem > and should not impose too much hassle on you: ship the entire source in > astromenace-data, build the executable there, use it to package the > data, but do not ship the built executable.
Thank you for the interesting proposal. But I do not think that this is a good solution here. Package astromenace has some debian-specific patches [1]. Proposed solution implies that they should be shipped in both packages. Also debian/rules in astromenace-data will be longer and less clean/transparent than now. [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/astromenace.git;a=tree;f=debian/patches > This way, astromenace-data does not need to build-depend on astromenace, > which can rightfully Depend on astromenace-data. You don't need to > bootstrap by first only Recommending astromenace-data. This will be done only at first upload. I do not see the reason to avoid it. Do you have one? Moreover, one idea have just came into my mind. If you have already built astromenace-data, you can upload it as is. And astromenace package can be modified even before first upload, so it will depend on astromenace-data when it is added to archive. Problem with circular dependencies affects only to build system of potential sponsor of the package because: a) astromenace-data is arch-indep package and such packages are not re-built by buildd; b) packages in non-free are not re-built by buildd. Thus I propose such solution: 1) You use current (unmodified) package astromenace to build astromenace-data. 2) I update package astromenace: it will depend on astromenace-data. (But without changing package version.) 3) You upload package astromenace-data and updated package astromenace. If you agree with this tricky/artful solution I will prepare updated package astromenace this evening. Best regards, Boris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1047491364388...@web20f.yandex.ru