Thinking out loud...
These are the circular dependencies (and other relevant dependencies) in
the GNUstep core libraries. (in ASCII art)
[GNUstep applications]
|
+---------------+------------------+
| v |
| gnustep-back <------+ |
| | | |
| +--------+--------+ | |
v v v | |
+--------> libgnustep-gui <------ gnustep-gpbs |
| | | |
| +---------+-------+ +--------+ |
| v v v |
gnustep-gui-common libgnustep-base <---------------+
^ |
| v
gnustep-base-common
So we have three circular dependencies (gnustep-back <-> gnustep-gpbs,
libgnustep-gui <-> gnustep-gui-common, and libgnustep-base <->
gnustep-base-common).
I'm thinking of breaking the cycles by splitting off the binaries from
the -common packages in to new -runtime (the suggested name in Policy
8.2) packages (so the -common packages will no longer depend on the lib
packages, and they'll also be Arch: all), and then getting all
applications to also depend on the -bin packages. (Similarly for
-gpbs.)
The good news is that this should require no modifications to the
application packages, since this can be done by just changing the shlibs
file. Since this coincides with a library transition, where all
packages need to be rebuilt, this won't cause any problems. (This is
also why I haven't uploaded the new GNUstep libraries yet.)
The bad news is that now all applications will have a longer Depends
line -- something like Depends: libgnustep-gui0.10, gnustep-gui-runtime,
gnustep-back0.10, gnustep-gpbs, libgnustep-base1.11,
gnustep-base-runtime, plus whatever extra libraries the package uses.
(Applications already depend on libgnustep-gui, gnustep-back, and
libgnustep-base, so we're just adding three more packages.)
[GNUstep applications]
|
+-----------+---------+-----+------+----------+--------+
| | | | | |
| | | v | |
| | | gnustep-gpbs | +
v | v | | v
gnustep-gui-bin | gnustep-back <-----+ | gnustep-base-bin
| | | | | |
| v v | | |
+-----> libgnustep-gui <-----------+ | |
| | | |
+---------+-------+ | | |
v v v v v
gnustep-gui-common libgnustep-base <---+----------+--------+
|
v
gnustep-base-common
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