• Potential circular dependency in JRuby

    From =?UTF-8?B?SsOpcsO0bWUgQ2hhcmFvdWk=?@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 26 22:00:01 2023
    Hello,

    Lately I've been working in updating JRuby in Debian to the new 9.4
    release series.

    As part of this work, I hoped to reduce the maintenance burden by
    greatly simplifying debian/rules and reducing the scope of required
    patches. By packaging both polyglot-ruby and jruby-mavengem (which I
    have completed) and making them available to the Maven build process, I
    was able to achieve this.

    However, since both of these new binary packages rely on JRuby to
    function, I been warned that this circular dependency may cause problems
    in the future.

    So my question is, what kinds of practical problems might this cause? Bootstrapping new Debian ports shouldn't be affected, since all packages involved are arch:all.

    Thanks!

    -- Jérôme

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