Re: Circular build dependency in maven-plugin-tools

["Torsten Werner" <mail.twerner@googlemail.com>]

Hi Onkar,

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde@gmail.com> wrote:
> maven-plugin-tools 2.4.3-1 in Debian unstable has build dep on
> libmaven-plugin-tools-java which is a package created by
> maven-plugin-tools itself. Can you please fix this circular build
> dependency?

no that is not possible. Every plugin needs maven-plugin-plugin to
create the plugin descriptor and libmaven-plugin-tools-java ships
maven-plugin-plugin which is a plugin and needs a plugin descriptor.
That is why it Build-Depends on itself.

Cheers,
Torsten