On 2011-12-13, Joachim Breitner <nome...@debian.org> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 13.12.2011, 19:29 +0100 schrieb Mehdi Dogguy: >> You mean having a circular build-dependency? That isn't great :/ >> I've seen some packages doing that (don't recall which right now) but >> didn't like it, tbh.=20 > ghc does, for instance.
And we had some fun where it was about to disappear from the archive due to a bad upload. It would've required manual pseudo-binNMUs on all architectures to get it back. But then I don't see how you could avoid circular build-dependencies with compilers written in their own language. fpc/fp-compiler does the same. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnjefdeu.6s1.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de
