Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Below is a log of a transaction with apt-get and dpkg to first install
> fontconfig and libfontconfig1, and then removing them. Installation goes
> nicely, but the removal fails, because dpkg removes libfontconfig1 first
> and only after it's done that does it remove fontconfig. Unfortunately,
> fontconfig's maintainer script calls fc-cache (via defoma Perl scripts
> that I don't really understand), which is linked against libfontconfig1
> and therefore fails in the dynamic linker. fontconfig does depend on
> libfontconfig1, so I expected dpkg to remove the packages in the right
> order.
It does remove them in exactly the right order:
Package: libfontconfig1
Depends: ..., fontconfig
See, libfontconfig1 needs to be removed before fontconfig. The order
is completly correct. BUT on the other hand:
Package: fontconfig
Depends: ..., libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0), ...
The same goes for fontconfig.
The problem is fontconfig / libfontconfig1. No one else is to
blame. Cyclic depends will be broken at random places and will cause
problems.
This exact same cycle has come up in a recent discussion about depends
cycle and I think the proposed solution was to move fc-cache into the
library package and then remove the libfontconfig1 depends fontconfig.
I think. Check for the thread for the full summary.
MfG
Goswin
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