Re: unsolvable circular dependencies and package splitting

2006-01-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Steve Langasek writes: > Huh? The bottom of that bug log shows a proposed solution that should work > just fine. Ok, that's not quite how I read it. The discussion ended with an idea for a fix and invitation to make such a package. That package never materialized, so I assumed there must be mo

Re: unsolvable circular dependencies and package splitting

2006-01-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Steve Langasek | Shipping files in /usr/bin as part of a lib package causes problems for | coinstallability when there's an soname change. Even if you could guarantee | forwards-compatibility of interfaces, and as a result ship /usr/bin/fc-cache | in each lib package with Replaces:, there's th

Re: unsolvable circular dependencies and package splitting

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:21:28AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > I wanted to report a circular dependency bug in fontconfig, but > found the discussion > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23310877%3A > with apparent outcome: the fontconfig <->libfontconfig1 dependency

unsolvable circular dependencies and package splitting

2006-01-09 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
I wanted to report a circular dependency bug in fontconfig, but found the discussion http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23310877%3A with apparent outcome: the fontconfig <->libfontconfig1 dependency cannot be resolved. If a circular dependency cannot be resolved because both