Hi Johannes. [debian-devel@d.o cc'ed - seems it was dropped accidentally]
Quoting Johannes Schauer (2013-06-08 12:57:01) > Hi, > > I'm the author of botch (the debian bootstrap tool) so I'm interested > in the librdf-trine-perl situation. > > Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2013-06-08 12:21:18) > > Here's what I just now added to README.source of librdf-trine-perl: > > > > > Circular build-dependencies > > > --------------------- > > > > > > This package is problematic to bootstrap, as some of the declared > > > build-dependencies cause bootstrapping loops. > > Botch does not list librdf-trine-perl to be involved in any dependency > cycles. > Can you tell me which ones you mean specifically? Don't worry - your tool didn't miss something: I introduce _new_ loops. librdf-trine-perl has an extensive testsuite, and as is common for Perl libraries parts of the testsuite is gracefully skipped if the needed libraries are unavailable. Until now I avoided loops by simply not build-depending on three libraries that themselves build-depend on librdf-trine-perl for their own testsuite (where it is mandatory for running the testsuite at all): librdf-rdfa-parser-perl librdf-query-perl librdf-trine-node-literal-xml-perl The change made to librdf-trine-perl today enables more of its testsuite and still supports bootstrapping, but now requiring bootstrappers to jumb through a few custom hoops. I would have appreciated to use some common pattern to avoid bootstrappers needing too much custom tinkering, but unfortunately that seems still needed. I have subscribed to those wiki pages and intend to update when some common pattern emerge. I will most likely introduce even more similar loops, now that I have decided on a pattern for handling it. Looking forward to updates to the CircularDependencies wiki page :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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