Bug#591054: cl-asdf: circular dependency with common-lisp-controller

[Faré]

On 3 August 2010 12:12, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
> To survive with minimal modifications to existing software, I recommend that:
>
> * we modify dh-lisp to *NOT* create a dependency on c-l-c for source packages,
>  only for binary packages.
I mean lisp source packages vs lisp implementation packages.
So cl-ppcre would not depend on clc, but sbcl would continue depending on it
for the time being.

> * we re-package a cl-asdf 2:2.004-2 with this new dh-lisp.
> * now c-l-c depends on cl-asdf but not the other way around.
>
> Indeed, the dh-lisp created packages post-install scripts:
> * check whether c-l-c is installed, and do nothing if it is not.
> * therefore do not really depend on c-l-c


> In the long run, my proposal is to:
> * get wholly rid of c-l-c and dh-lisp
> * just make sure that (require :asdf) will work on all lisps,
>  possibly depending on cl-asdf at build time to include a precompiled
>  version of the latest packaged asdf, when asdf isn't already
>  provided by the implementation (clisp?).

And of course, it's better to work upstream to have ASDF2 included
everywhere rather than to make it a special Debian thing.

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