RFU: tmexpand

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Tue May 29 18:32:45 UTC 2007


* Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2007-05-28 23:48]:

> Rafael Laboissiere schrieb am Mon 28. May, 19:21 (+0200):
> > * Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2007-05-28 14:38]:
> > 
> > > Rafael Laboissiere schrieb am Mon 28. May, 13:47 (+0200):
> > > > 1) The package depends on jed | xjed but the future jed will build-depend on
> > > >    it.  Won't this cause a chicken-and-egg problem?
> > > 
> > > Good point. It's possible to build the packages, but bootstrapping isn't
> > > possible. But rebuilding the hlp files if tmexpand is installed and
> > > otherwise leave them as they are, wasn't what I want and leads to
> > > different build results.
> > 
> > It looks like tmexpand should be part of the jed source package.
> 
> ??? and part of the slang package. [snip]

For the slang package it would be really problematic because we could not
bootstrap the whole thing, because tmexpand depends on jed and jed depends
on libslang2.  So, if one included tmexpand in slang, then it would
indirectly build-depend on jed.

-- 
Rafael



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