Bug#406778: openoffice.org-common: Circular depends with openoffice.org-style-default

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 07:19:07PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 12:26:52AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > It seems you've introduced a circular dependency between
> > openoffice.org-common and openoffice.org-style-default.  This results in
> > undefined behaviour.
> 
> What is the exact behavior that's undefined here?  Do these packages have
> maintainer scripts which reference one another?
> 
> If neither package needs the other at configure time, then as discussed on
> debian-devel in the past, there's no reason that this should be a
> release-critical bug.

I guess I missed that discussion.  I'll look into it.

> The openoffice.org-common postinst only calls update-openoffice-dicts, and
> openoffice.org-style-default has no maintainer scripts.

The openoffice.org-common package has config files.  Those don't get
installed until it gets configured and are named ".dpkg-new" until that
point.

I don't know if any of the packages depending on openoffice.org-common
need them, but I guess so.

Afaik, once dpkg breaks the dependency loop, and it decides to do
openoffice.org-style-default first, openoffice.org-common can be
configured after all the packages that depend on it, and that doesn't
look like a good thing to me.


Kurt