Charles Plessy wrote:
> I felt a bit afraid that in some
> situations where some packages are temporarly mutually incompatible, we can
> end
> up in a situation where the source package that depends on it is not
> rebuidable
> unless the tests are disabled.
I found this kind of situation when packaging some perl modules:
* libfile-find-rule-perl-perl needs libtest-minimumversion-perl to run all its
tests
and libtest-minimumversion-perl depends on libfile-find-rule-perl-perl.
To avoid this circular dependency, libfile-find-rule-perl-perl build-depends on
"libtest-minimumversion-perl (>= 0.007) | perl" and some tests are skipped if
libtest-minimumversion-perl is not installed.
* I did the same for the libparse-cpan-meta-perl package:
libparse-cpan-meta-perl build depends on:
...
libtest-cpan-meta-perl (>= 0.07) | perl,
libperl-minimumversion-perl (>= 0.007) | perl,
because
libtest-cpan-meta-perl depends AND build-depends on libparse-cpan-meta-perl
and
libperl-minimumversion-perl build-depends on libtest-cpan-meta-perl
I found that using "libXXX-perl | perl" still allows the package to be build if
the libXXX-perl is not available (with less tests in these cases).
I do not know if there are some better solutions.
Regards,
Vincent
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