Re: Circular build dependency in maven-plugin-tools

["Onkar Shinde" <onkarshinde@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Torsten Werner
<mail.twerner@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Onkar,
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde@gmail.com> wrote:
>> maven-plugin-tools 2.4.3-1 in Debian unstable has build dep on
>> libmaven-plugin-tools-java which is a package created by
>> maven-plugin-tools itself. Can you please fix this circular build
>> dependency?
>
> no that is not possible. Every plugin needs maven-plugin-plugin to
> create the plugin descriptor and libmaven-plugin-tools-java ships
> maven-plugin-plugin which is a plugin and needs a plugin descriptor.
> That is why it Build-Depends on itself.

Any advice on how to build this package in pbuilder and/or buildd?


Onkar