Re: [med-svn] r8804 - trunk/packages/mgltools/pmv/trunk/debian
On 12/18/2011 12:23 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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.
Only if it is cheap. I rate the synchronicity with upstream's code management
higher. Much higher. I veto any change as long as I am one of the uploaders
or it is requested by upstream.
>> 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.
I disagree. The build process is mostly automated and works.
There are more important things to work on. Promised.
Best,
Steffen
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