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

[Neil Williams]

Goedson Teixeira Paixao wrote:
> 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.

OK, thanks. If something like this happens again, I'll do it that way.

For the current situation, the next upload of pilot-qof does depend on
libqof-backend-qsf0 and libqof1 and is due in a day or so. The next
upload of libqof1 no longer depends on the backends itself - breaking
the circle and closing the bug. Is that sufficient or does the next
release of libqof1 still need to conflict with pilot-qof <= 0.1.1-1 ?

(0.1.1-1 is in experimental and does not know anything about the qsf
backend.)

The next upload of pilot-qof is 0.1.1-2 (simple change from experimental
back to unstable in debian/changelog and the addition of
libqof-backend-qsf0 to Depends: in debian/control.)

The next upload of libqof1 is likely to be 0.8.0-1 but this won't be
ready until after pilot-qof 0.1.1-2 reaches testing. Does there still
need to be an interim upload of libqof1 with the conflict?

-- 

Neil Williams
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