Bug#940303: libreoffice-common: circular dependency hell

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

reassign 940303 libreoffice-common,libreoffice-style-colibre,libreoffice-style-tango
severity 940303 normal
retitle 940303 libreoffice-common: circular dependency between -common
and -style-{colibre,tango}
tag 940303 + wontfix
thanks

Hi,

can you use some sane title instead of just accusing people directly
there?

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 01:33:05PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Package: libreoffice-common
> Version: 1:6.3.1-1
> Severity: important

No.

> There is a circular dependency between libreoffice-common,
> libreoffice-style-colibre and libreoffice-style-tango:
> 
> libreoffice-common 	:Depends: libreoffice-style-colibre, libreoffice-style-tango

Of course it does. LO needs icons.

> libreoffice-style-colibre 	:Depends: libreoffice-common (= 1:6.3.1-1)
> libreoffice-style-tango 	:Depends: libreoffice-common (= 1:6.3.1-1)

And of couse the icons need LO to make sense, and far more important,
due to dh_linkdocs to save space -common is even needed to have
/usr/share/doc (and that one is mandated by policy).

> Complex circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade, so we
> should try to avoid them.

If you need stuff during the upgrade. You don't need icons during
a upgrade. And when the upgrade is done you have a consistent thing.

Please file bugs on stuff really having a problem with this. This one
does not.

Regards,

Rene