Re: package build-depending on itself?
* David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org> [2001-02-18T04:01-0600]:
> 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?
[...]
> 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.
Thanks, hereby done.
Cheers,
Michael
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