[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#359158: libgnustep-base1.11 has circular Depends on gnustep-base-common

[Bill Allombert]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:49:25PM -0600, Hubert Chan wrote:
> reassign 359158 gnustep-base-common
> thanks
> 
> (Reassigning to gnustep-base-common, so that when libgnustep-base1.12
> goes in, this bug will still be current.)
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:36:44 +0200, Bill Allombert said:
> 
> > There is a circular dependency between libgnustep-base1.11 and
> > gnustep-base-common:
> 
> > libgnustep-base1.11 :Depends: gnustep-base-common (>= 1.11.2-2)
> > gnustep-base-common :Depends: libgnustep-base1.11 (>= 1.11.2)
> 
> Yes.  As far as I know, GNUstep applications that link against
> libgnustep-base* require the gdnc program (at least), which is in
> gnustep-base-common.  And of course gdnc is linked against
> libgnustep-base, so gnustep-base-common must depend on libgnustep-base*.
> 
> I'm thinking of making libgnustep-base* Recommends: gnustep-base-common
> instead of Depends:.  Does anyone know of any breakages that might
> happen if I do that?  Since aptitude is the suggested installer for
> sarge onwards, and aptitude will pull in Recommends:, this should still
> ensure that gnustep-base-common gets installed.
> 
> (AFAIK, gnustep-gui will need similar treatment.)
> 
> Bill, do you have any other possible suggestions?

Well I suppose libgnustep-base1.11 does not need gnustep-base-common,
but rather the programs linked with libgnustep-base1.11 ?
In that case you could remove the dependency and make sure 
packages linked with libgnustep-base1.11 depend on gnustep-base-common,
maybe by adding gnustep-base-common to the shlibs file ?

Cheers,
Bill.