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and subject line no point to keep open
has caused the Debian Bug report #527920,
regarding please break circular dependency
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package: xserver-xorg
User: [email protected]
Usertags: piuparts piuparts.d.o
Hi,
thanks for maintaining Xorg!
As you'll know xserver-xorg-core depends on xserver-xorg and xserver-xorg
depends on xserver-xorg-core, which is called a circular dependency, which
sometimes breaks apt (not dpkg) in interesting ways.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=190558 for a quite good
discussion of the problem.
It also effects piuparts testing, as you can see
http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/state-circular-dependency.html - piuparts
only tests packages which dependecies were successfully tested and well, for
circular dependencies this will never happen.
Whats wrong with making xserver-xorg depend on xserver-xorg-core and making
xserver-org-core only recommend xserver-org? (I do the same with the tuxtype
and tuxtype-data packages, and tuxtype-data is also basically useless without
tuxtype. You could look at the images, yeah ;-)
(Actually I'm not sure this last paragraph (copied from a similar bug) applies
here. From the package names it sounds as if xserver-xorg-core shouldnt
recommend xserver-xorg at all even.)
regards,
Holger
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there is value in not having too many bugs open and there is "#526046 [i|H| ]
[piuparts] RFH: automatically break circular dependencies when there are only
circular dependencies left" too, which is enough for me, thus closing :)
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