[Debian-science-sagemath] fpylll: dependency or dependencee of Sage ?

[Ximin Luo]

Ximin Luo:
> Jeroen Demeyer:
>> To be very precise:
>>
>> - fpylll has a *build-time* dependency on Sage-the-library
>>
>> - Sage-the-distribution has a *run-time* dependency on fpylll
>>
> 
> This is nevertheless a circular dependency. This is to be avoided, it increases the reasoning cost in trying to maintain and upgrade this stuff.
> 

Also in Debian, this is effectively a build-time dependency since the tests run it. In Debian, we run tests before shipping the binary package off to be installed - either on users' machines, or on other build machines for them to use the package as a build-dependency of something that they're building.

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