On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 03:38:10PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:09:13 +0200 > Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote: > > There is a circular dependency between libxfconf-0-2 and xfconf: > > libxfconf-0-2 :Depends: xfconf > > xfconf :Depends: libxfconf-0-2 (>= 4.6.0) > > Circular dependencies involving shared libraries are known to cause > > problems during upgrade between stable releases, so we should try to > > get rid of them. > Damn. I was sure that xfconfd wasn't using libxfconf and so the xfconf > package would not depend on libxfconf, but xfconf-query (also in xfconf > package) does use libxfconf.
> I'll break this circular dependency, not exactly sure how. Either I > ship xfconf-query in a xfconf-utils package (but it has to go to NEW > again and a new binary package just for one tool is a bit too much), > either I ship xfconf-query in libxfconf package (but it doesn't have > much sense either). > pkg-xfce maintainers, what do you think? You could perhaps downgrade the depends from xfconf to a Recommends if it's just one tiny util and the main app works? In all sane situations they'll have both installed automatically anyway. Simon. -- oOoOo "I got everything up to the part about `Now listen oOoOo oOoOo closely'" - The Cat. oOoOo oOoOo oOoOo _______________________________________________ Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list Pkg-xfce-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xfce-devel