On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 02:17:03PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 22.04.2015 um 13:11 schrieb Bill Allombert: > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:55:19PM +0300, Vlad Orlov wrote: > >> Hi Michael, > >> > >>> Not release critical. Restoring previous severity. > >> > >> Are you sure? This might break Wheezy -> Jessie upgrades... > > > > Actually, this is more likely to break Jessie to Jessie+1 upgrade. > > The problem is caused by the need to break the cycle during upgrade. > > Adding new cycle is not an issue per se (except that of course the > > cycle will need to broken in the next upgrade). The symptom is apt-get > > trying to remove packages instead of upgrading them. > > I made several updates of the adwaita-icon-theme package with that > dependency cycle without problems.
As long as the dependency graph does not change, things generally work. However, if Jessie+1 uses a different theme and adwaita-icon-theme is deprecated, then it starts to get messy. > Do you have an references (like actual bug reports) where apt did remove > a package because of such a dep cycle? Yes, this was rather frequent before circular dependencies were culled down. The worse is probably #310490 Anyway, this bug is trivial to fix, there is not much point arguing severity. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
