Bug#940303: libreoffice-common: circular dependency hell

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 02:14:39PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 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' ?

Yes.

> > > 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.

True.
But this is done for all other _all packages and a exception just for
those can get confusing.

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

And what are you going to do with icons without the rest of LO?

OK; I could recommend it...

Regards,

Rene