Re: [med-svn] r8804 - trunk/packages/mgltools/pmv/trunk/debian
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:13:05PM +0100, Steffen Möller wrote:
> > I just tried to install mgltools-pmv in sid and autodocktools was installed as well. So there should be no problem for the user
> > but the cycle still seems to be present!?
>
> These complaints about circular runtime (not build time) dependencies are truly annoying to me.
Finally circular dependencies are annoying in several situations and it
makes perfectly sense to avoid them.
> I refuse to care about them if a
> fix is not trivial. If I am not erroneous, neither PVM nor autodocktools starts without the other package. "Depends" is right.
> Back then I have split the package up to match the upstream CVS repository. There was no real benefit from it. So, if those
> complaints about this package in non-free continue, we should either aggregate all of mgltools or remove it all.
I actually very much in favour of building mgltools from plain upstream
source as it is provided upstream in one source package and create
different source packages. When doing this refactoring a package
<name>-common could be created which is needed by more than one binary
package. While the packaging of this package is a bit more complex it
finally reduces the maintenance effort we had in the past.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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