Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> writes:

> In hdf5-cffi.asd, some components are labelled :cffi-grovel-file,
> which looks like an ASDF extension provided by cffi-grovel. If that is
> true, then the :defsystem-depends-on is necessary. A quick test supports
> that hypothesis: if you remove the line, the system fails to load.

Indeed.  What I meant is that if the Common Lisp package (the code inside the src
folder) depends on cffi-grovel, then I believe it should be added to
:depends-on as well.  We can ask ASDF and hdf5-cffi.

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Pierre Neidhardt
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