Seeking for advice: Circular Build Dependencies.

2011-10-13 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Hi, I'm seeking for advice for how to handle this rather complicated solution. I'm packaging a large software base that builds a number of libraries and applications. In order to simplify things: - foo (source package) builds: - libfoo-dev, libfoo0, libfoo0-bin, ... - and build depends on

Re: Seeking for advice: Circular Build Dependencies.

2011-10-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 15:26, Reinhard Tartler siret...@debian.org wrote: In my tests, it *seems* that apt indeed prefers a real package over a virtual package. I'm aware of the following drawbacks: It does, but you are better of handling this as an internal detail - because it is

Re: Seeking for advice: Circular Build Dependencies.

2011-10-13 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, Le 13/10/11 15:26, Reinhard Tartler a écrit : One solution would be to throw all sources into a big source package and build everything from that. Looks like the sane solution to me. Another would be to, on the contrary, split the source packages, if possible, to completely break the