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.
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 5:15 PM Bill Allombert 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.
>
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