Bug#940286: golang-github-anacrolix-missinggo-dev has circular Depends on golang-github-anacrolix-tagflag-dev
Package: golang-github-anacrolix-missinggo-dev Version: 2.1.0-4 Followup-For: Bug #940286 Control: tags -1 + confirmed wontfix As discussed above, the circular dependency is an actual part of the missinggo and tagflag Go modules, but is not expected to cause problems in practice. I'll leave this bug open to document the issue, but will tag the bug "wontfix" (and "confirmed") to indicate that no further action is required at this point.
Bug#940286: golang-github-anacrolix-missinggo-dev has circular Depends on golang-github-anacrolix-tagflag-dev
Package: golang-github-anacrolix-missinggo-dev Version: 2.1.0-4 Followup-For: Bug #940286 That's correct, the circular dependency is in fact present in the two packages. In missinggo, cmd/filecache/main.go and cmd/http-file-server/main.go use tagflag.Parse. In tagflag, parser.go and usage.go use missinggo/slices. The situation is uncomfortable, but I do not anticipate it will cause problems in practice. tagflag is source-only, missinggo only needs it to be present in the GOPATH, and vice versa. There is no operational circular dependency in the actual files involved, i.e. missinggo/slices (required by tagflags) is not the part of missinggo that depends on tagflags. missinggo is a collection of various miscellaneous functions, not a library with a specific capability. Not all functions are related to one other. The alternative is to patch missinggo/slices into tagflag. This is easy to do with Go using vendor directories. This is how I bootstrapped tagflag. But now that missinggo itself is available, it doesn't seem constructive to continue the vendor bootstrap. It's a worse option than tolerating the circular dependency, I think.
Bug#940286: golang-github-anacrolix-missinggo-dev has circular Depends on golang-github-anacrolix-tagflag-dev
Package: golang-github-anacrolix-missinggo-dev Version: 2.1.0-4 Severity: important Hello Debian Go Packaging Team, There is a circular dependency between golang-github-anacrolix-missinggo-dev and golang-github-anacrolix-tagflag-dev: golang-github-anacrolix-missinggo-dev :Depends: golang-github-anacrolix-tagflag-dev golang-github-anacrolix-tagflag-dev :Depends: golang-github-anacrolix-missinggo-dev Circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade between stable releases, so we should strive to avoid them. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.
