Control: retitle -1 libgc1 and libgc1c2 have circular Conflict/Replaces Hi Bill, On 26-05-2021 23:21, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 07:50:53PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: >> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 12:00:46PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: >>> One way to fix that is to update libgc1c2 in stable to not >>> Conflict/Replaces with libgc1. >> >> while this is true, this is also not the most desireable fix, because >> it should be possible to update from *any* stable installation >> to the next stable, not just from the latest stable point release. > > I agree with you, but this is a general issue with circular dependencies > (and circular conflicts) that they can only be fixed cleanly by > updating stable and not testing. > That is why I have always strongly recommended to avoid them. > > (We could of course fix it in testing by renaming libgc1 to libgc1c4 or whatever > but that would create a much larger disruption than removing a useless Conflict > from stable). Do I understand you correctly that we're ready to reassign this bug to libgc1c2 and ask for the fix in buster? Paul
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