Hi, On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 06:29:01PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 06 juin 2010 à 18:06 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : > > [Bill Allombert] > > > Dear developers, > > > Today circular dependencies in unstable reached an all-time low. > > > > Very good to hear. If only we could get it down to zero, piuparts > > would be able to test all the packages and a more deterministic > > package installation order would be ensured. :) > > Indeed that would help a lot. > > It is probably too late for squeeze, but how about forbidding it into > the policy after the release?
No. Besides that I think it would be bad to forbid correct dependencies it would break some subpolicies. (I have the cli-uno-bridge <-> libuno-cppuhelper1.0-cil one in mind, see #495748). No, that's not the way to go, IMHO. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' r...@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: D03E3E70 `- Fingerprint: E12D EA46 7506 70CF A960 801D 0AA0 4571 D03E 3E70 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100606165304.gi25...@rene-engelhard.de