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

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 01:28:26PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > 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.

But the issue here is only whether openoffice.org-style-default needs them,
right?

> 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.

It doesn't make sense to me that dpkg would do this.  Do you know that this
is actually the case, and do you have evidence that it breaks something with
this exact package?

Thanks,
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