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Re: [buildd-tools-devel] new buildd dependency resolution breaks self depends?



[Lennart Sorensen]
> Oh OK, so there is no build dependancy issue at all then (since no one
> would be dumb enough to make a package that build depends on one of its
> own binaries, would they?).

You didn't read the beginning of the thread, I guess?  This is a
situation much like gcc, where the compiler is self-hosting.  gcc
avoids the (explicit) self-dependency by being in Build-Essential.
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Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/


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