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