The solution would be to separate the binary package for cl-ppcre in two or three: the base cl-ppcre (without unicode) and the cl-ppcre-unicode (with unicode) and perhaps a package cl-ppcre that "just" depends on the previous.
—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. ― Frank Zappa On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 5:15 PM Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote: > > Package: cl-ppcre > Version: 20180805.git2115632-1 > Severity: important > > Hello Debian Common Lisp Team, > > There is a circular dependency between cl-ppcre and cl-unicode: > > cl-ppcre :Depends: cl-unicode > cl-unicode :Depends: cl-ppcre > > Circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade between > stable releases, so we should try to avoid them. > > See threads > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg02111.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg01101.html > > Cheers, > -- > Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> > > Imagine a large red swirl here. >
