Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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)
