Re: Build-Depends on source itself

[Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>]

Jerome BENOIT <calculus@rezozer.net> writes:

> for one of my package, libgap-sage [1], the source material used for build
> is in fact seded meterial from an other package, gap

One good solution would be to have the ‘gap’ package build a new binary
package, maybe ‘gap-data’, that contains the data you need in a format
likely to be useful for many purposes.

Could you work with the ‘gap’ package maintainer to achieve that?

Once ‘gap-data’ (if that is the name the ‘gap’ maintainers decide)
exists, your poposed pacakge can “Build-Depends: gap-data” and work
forward from there.

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Ben Finney