Re: status of circulars dependencies in unstable
Hi,
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 06:29:01PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le dimanche 06 juin 2010 à 18:06 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit :
> > [Bill Allombert]
> > > Dear developers,
> > > Today circular dependencies in unstable reached an all-time low.
> >
> > Very good to hear. If only we could get it down to zero, piuparts
> > would be able to test all the packages and a more deterministic
> > package installation order would be ensured. :)
>
> Indeed that would help a lot.
>
> It is probably too late for squeeze, but how about forbidding it into
> the policy after the release?
No. Besides that I think it would be bad to forbid correct dependencies it
would break some subpolicies. (I have the cli-uno-bridge <-> libuno-cppuhelper1.0-cil
one in mind, see #495748).
No, that's not the way to go, IMHO.
Grüße/Regards,
René
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