Re: package build-depending on itself?

[Mike Coleman <mkc@mathdogs.com>]

Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> writes:
> David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> How do you build the package on a new arch?

Just copy it from a future distribution.  :-)

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