On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 18:09 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:15:18AM -0400, Steve Halasz wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 15:09 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Package: grass > > > Version: 6.0.2-2 > > > Severity: important > > > > > > Hello Debian GIS maintainers, > > > > > > There is a circular dependency between grass and libgrass: > > > > > > grass :Depends: libgrass (= 6.0.2-2) > > > libgrass :Depends: grass (= 6.0.2-2) > > > > These really depend on each other since each is unusable without the > > other. So it looks like we need to find the stuff in the grass package > > that is used by the grass libs and move it to libgrass. Probably a > > number of things in /usr/lib/grass/etc at least. > > Well, why libgrass was splitted out from grass ? From what I see it do > not provide any benefices. > > What did I miss ?
The idea was to make it easier to build against grass by not requiring download of the entire grass. I did not realize at the time that the libraries were not self-contained. Steve _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list Pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel
