[Openstack-devel] Bug#722507: Bug#722507: Bug#722507: python-couleur: circular dependency hell

[Julien Danjou]

On Thu, Sep 12 2013, Bill Allombert wrote:

> Independently of other issues, this is increasing the complexity of the
> dependency graph and bloating the Package file without any benefit to the
> users. If really the circular dependency is required, then you could as well
> ship a single package that include the three.
>
> But from reading the descriptions of the packages, the dependencies seems
> strange. Why should a 'tool to play around with ANSI features in a unix terminal'
> should depend on an 'utility belt for automated testing for Python' ?

I checked quickly, and python-steadymark is only a build-dependency
actually of python-sure, and it's merely useful as it is just used to
convert a README.md file.

As for python-couleur, it has steadymark in its requirements list, but
it doesn't seem used at all. That should be reported upstream I guess.

-- 
Julien Danjou
-- Free Software hacker - independent consultant
-- http://julien.danjou.info
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