Re: How to resolve circular build dependency?

[Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr>]

On 13/09/14 15:01, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Dear mentors,
> 
> in debian-astro, we have a problem with a circular dependency on two
> packages that are currently prepared [1], [2]:
> 
> - the "casacore" needs the "casacore-data" package for unit tests
> 
> - the "casacore-data" needs "casacore" to be build from the source data.
> 
> The source data of casacore-data are actually independent of casacore,
> so it does not make sense to put both into one common package.
> 
> How can this problem be solved?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Ole
> 
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-astro/2014/09/msg00008.html
> [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-astro/2014/09/msg00009.html
>

Hi guys,
if I get this right, this is only build-time dependency, right?
What about "merging" both upstream sources into one source
package and build them at the same time into whatever binary
packages you want to have?

Cheers,
Tomasz