Bug#793715: antlr3 has circular Depends on libstringtemplate4-java

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 26/07/2015 19:49, Bill Allombert a écrit :

> There is a circular dependency between antlr3 and libstringtemplate4-java

Hi Bill,

These packages are mere libraries with no maintainer scripts, they are
immediately usable once unpackaged. Is the cycle really an issue in this
case?

It might be possible to break the cycle between the binary packages by
splitting the antlr3 package:
- libantlr3-runtime-java, with the runtime only
- antlr3, with the command line tools, depends on libantlr3-runtime-java
and libstringtemplate4-java

I don't think it's possible to break the cycle between the source
packages, but since the packages are arch all this is not an issue for
bootstrapping new architectures.

Emmanuel Bourg