Bug#763669: adwaita-icon-theme: circular dependency hell

[Michael Biebl]

Am 22.04.2015 um 13:11 schrieb Bill Allombert:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:55:19PM +0300, Vlad Orlov wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>>> Not release critical. Restoring previous severity.
>>
>> Are you sure? This might break Wheezy -> Jessie upgrades...
> 
> Actually, this is more likely to break Jessie to Jessie+1 upgrade.
> The problem is caused by the need to break the cycle during upgrade.
> Adding new cycle is not an issue per se (except that of course the
> cycle will need to broken in the next upgrade). The symptom is apt-get
> trying to remove packages instead of upgrading them.

I made several updates of the adwaita-icon-theme package with that
dependency cycle without problems.

Do you have an references (like actual bug reports) where apt did remove
a package because of such a dep cycle?

Michael
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