Bug#527920: please break circular dependency
Holger Levsen wrote:
I'd be nice if you'd either given the number or even better, merged yourself.
But thats bts-usage nitpicking and hardly worth saying :-)
What's worth saying is, that you didnt give a reason for 396613 being marked
wontfix here and that there is none in 396613. You dont even give a reason
why there is this circular dependency which causes real problems for existing
tools.
Can you please explain?!
Because these two packages do actually depend on each other to function.
That's a hard dependency and there's no way around it. Ian Jackson has
argued strenuously that circular dependencies are not a bad thing, and
that dpkg handles them fine, and I'm in agreement with him. That said,
the reason why xserver-xorg was split from xserver-xorg-core was to
separate the very large and rapidly changing server config scripts from
the server itself, allowing us to make rapid improvements to them with
minimal stress to ourselves and our users. Now that those scripts are
essentially gone, it's time to start thinking earnestly about reuniting
them as xserver-xorg, and letting -core go away. This is *not* the same
thing as removing the circular dependency, which is necessary and
correct so long as these two packages exist despite whatever buggy tools.
- David Nusinow
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