Bug#365216: tetex-base: babel: 00readme.heb (hebrew documentation) is missing, only in tetex-src

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

>> What about build-depending on tetex-src instead, and copying the
>> files from its tree into the install tree?  The obvious
>> disadvantage is that it requires even more downloading (55MB).  But
>> it saves human resources
>> - regenerating the missingfiles.tar.gz e.g.
[...]
> Wouldn't that mean, that tetex-base build depends on itself? I've
> doubt that this is good idea. 

It's not nice, but for an arch:all package not much of a problem,
either.  Even tetex-bin (indirectly) build-depends on tetex-bin.

Dependency loops happens regularly, and are not problematic, in binary
distributions - they are not bootstrapped, but instead based on their
earlier binary packages.  In principle it might become a problem: If a
package is uninstallable on one architecture, the next upload cannot be
compiled without changing the rules file.  This is something to remember
(for an arch-all package like tetex-base the uploader will automatically
notice it, even).  

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)