Am 22.04.2015 um 23:00 schrieb Bill Allombert: > 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.
Or because apt (and aptitude) are better nowadays in handling that. > The worse is probably #310490 That's a rather old bug report. Is there something more recent? > Anyway, this bug is trivial to fix, there is not much point arguing severity. So far, no such trivial patch has been proposed. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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