reassign 940303 libreoffice-common,libreoffice-style-colibre,libreoffice-style-tango severity 940303 normal retitle 940303 libreoffice-common: circular dependency between -common and -style-{colibre,tango} tag 940303 + wontfix thanks
Hi, can you use some sane title instead of just accusing people directly there? On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 01:33:05PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Package: libreoffice-common > Version: 1:6.3.1-1 > Severity: important No. > There is a circular dependency between libreoffice-common, > libreoffice-style-colibre and libreoffice-style-tango: > > libreoffice-common :Depends: libreoffice-style-colibre, > libreoffice-style-tango Of course it does. LO needs icons. > libreoffice-style-colibre :Depends: libreoffice-common (= 1:6.3.1-1) > libreoffice-style-tango :Depends: libreoffice-common (= 1:6.3.1-1) And of couse the icons need LO to make sense, and far more important, due to dh_linkdocs to save space -common is even needed to have /usr/share/doc (and that one is mandated by policy). > Complex circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade, so > we > should try to avoid them. If you need stuff during the upgrade. You don't need icons during a upgrade. And when the upgrade is done you have a consistent thing. Please file bugs on stuff really having a problem with this. This one does not. Regards, Rene