Circular dependency in packaging
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Description
Rhombus-draw depends on rhombus which depends on rhombus-draw: https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/rhombus-draw
This causes problems on distribution channels such as Gentoo: https://gitlab.com/gentoo-racket/gentoo-racket-overlay/-/work_items/1#note_3832163974
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by examining the package metadata for rhombus and rhombus-draw using the linked package page, then compare how each package declares its dependencies. Check the Gentoo distribution report to understand the failure, and consider the work done when the dependency cycle is removed and distribution channels no longer report it.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100