[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#560359: Bug#560359: gnustep-common depends print_unique_pathlist.sh from gnustep-make

[Yavor Doganov]

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thanks

Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
> Package: gnustep-common
> Version: 2.0.6-2

Thanks for the report.

> /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh from gnustep-common depends
> on /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/print_unique_pathlist.sh which is
> distributed in gnustep-make package.

Could you please describe the use case that is failing for you?  On a
Debian system, it is not required to source GNUstep.sh as the upstream
documentaion says.  Does it fail when gnustep-make is not installed?

With the FHS layout the Debian packages are built, GNUstep.sh is
mostly obsolete (even if you build GNUstep stuff -- one can use
gs_make or just export GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES).  The purpose of
gnustep-common is to provide some basic required files that need to be
available if you have anything GNUstep-related installed.
gnustep-make is only needed for building.

> Dependency on gnustep-make is not listed in gnustep-common controls.

We cannot make gnustep-common depend on gnustep-make; that would be a
circular dependency.  If print_unique_pathlist.sh is actually required
for a basic workstation, we have to move it to gnustep-common.  But
I'm not convinced that's the case.