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

[Desmond O. Chang]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 03:02, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Your idea is nice.  I agree to reduce the current complexity.

I put my modifications in the 'next' branches of dh-lisp and c-l-c.
Review them please.

I am not going to merge them until other members agree with us.

>
>> 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.

Could you give us a detailed proposal for discussion?  We need more
comments.