Bug#940303: libreoffice-common: circular dependency hell

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 01:51:38PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> can you use some sane title instead of just accusing people directly
> there?

Hello Rene!

I did not plan to accuse anybody. 
Are you objecting to the vocable 'dependency hell' ?

> > 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).

Policy allows to use separate
/usr/share/doc/libreoffice-common
/usr/share/doc/libreoffice-style-colibre and
/usr/share/doc/libreoffice-style-tango
directories which are not symlinks and copy the copyright file instead
and this way you do not have to add an unnecessary dependency.

The provision for the symlink in policy should not be seen as a
justification for unnecessary dependencies.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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