On 2021-09-18 14:17 +0530, open infra wrote: > Hi, > How build a package A where it has a circular dependent package B (where > package B is depend on package A).
Once they are both in the archive it's not a problem. You just specifiy the dependencies and build each against the version of the other currently in the archive. For the initial bootstrap you can use whatever local bootstrap is expedient, then do binary uploads of one before a normal source upload of the other. It's a good idea to encode the bootstrap into the package dependencies if you can, e.g. if a build excluding some feature removes the circular dependency in a package, so you can do that minimal build of A first, then build B then build 'full' A. This is what 'build profiles' are for: https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec Doing this keeps debian bootstrappable for new architectures, and helps you if you need to re-do the bootstrap of the pair again (e.g due to major api changes in both packages together). We don't have a way of doing a profiled build in the archive, but you can upload a version of A that forces the minimal build (and doesn't mention the 'B' dependency), let that build, then upload B and (once built OK) upload a full A. Sometimes people use 'foo-bootstrap' package names so that the minimal and full versions of a package can be distinguished. HTH Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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