[Pkg-qof-maintainers] Bug#387196: circular dependency

[Goedson Teixeira Paixao]

Em Qua, 2006-09-13 às 14:56 +0100, Neil Williams escreveu:
> 
> Was there a better way of handling this situation where libfoo is split
> out from libbar? libbar must depend on libfoo - the problem was that foo
> (a completely separate application) depended on libfoo and expected
> libfoo to include libbar as well.

If the dependency is created just not to break the foo-app (pilot-qof)
package, the right way of handling it would be rebuild the foo-app
package so it would get the dependencies right AND make libbar conflict
with older revisions of the foo-app package. So, in this specific case,
you would have (quoting only the relevant parts):

Package: pilot-qof
Version: 0.0.10-2
Depends: libqof-backend-qsf0, libqof1

Package: libqof1
Version: 0.7.1-1
Conflicts: pilot-qof (<= 0.0.10-1)

This would avoid the possibility of a broken upgrade.




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