Re: How to resolve circular build dependency?
Hi Gijs and Tomasz,
Gijs Molenaar <gijsmolenaar@gmail.com> writes:
> i don't think that would work, the releases of casacore-data and
> casacore are not in sync.
>
> 2014-09-13 18:31 GMT+02:00 Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr>:
>
> Hi guys,
> if I get this right, this is only build-time dependency, right?
> What about "merging" both upstream sources into one source
> package and build them at the same time into whatever binary
> packages you want to have?
This is a good idea, also covered by Johannes Schauer on debian-mentors[1]
> 2. join src:casacore-data and src:casacore into a single source package and
> handle bootstrapping of both via debian/rules
The concern of casacore{,-data} being out of sync might be resolved with
two tarballs supported by quilt 3.0 format[2]. I am not sure how to
implement it in a clean way by git-buildpackage. Any examples
available?
Cheers,
Benda
1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2014/09/msg00267.html
2. http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/07/how-to-use-multiple-upstream-tarballs-in-debian-source-packages/
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