On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 09:54:12AM +0100, Michael Weber wrote: > Hi! > > Is it allowed for a package to build-depend on itself? > > In my case, it is ghc4, which has the following: > > Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 2.0.40), autoconf (>= 2.12), cpio, > cygnus-stylesheets, ghc4 (>= 4.07), happy (>= 1.7) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > So, you need an older version of ghc4 to build a current version, > which is actually true (it's a compiler). I've received bug #83463, > saying this is bad. > > I'm afraid, there aren't many options to prevent this... Any > suggestions? It's not good, but it's unavoidable. We had this discussion before on debian-devel, the resolution was that if it's unavoidable, it's unavoidable. No one's going to kick dozens of packages out of Debian because they depend or build-depend on a package that build-depends itself. So you can close the bug report. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg
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