[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#478710: Bug#478710: Need advice

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:45:57PM +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
>   The only reason that we need pcb-common to Depend on
>   pcb-gtk | pcb-lesstif
>   
>   is because there's an upstream desktop entry 
>   /usr/share/applications/pcb.desktop installed in pcb-common, this 
>   desktop entry executes the binary 'pcb' which will only exist if either 
>   pcb-gtk or pcb-lesstif is installed.
> 
>   So, is it ok to remove this "pcb-gtk | pcb-lesstif" dependancy in this 
>   case ? That would mean that a user could install pcb-common, yet 
>   without installing any of pcb-gtk nor pcb-lesstif, so he will have a 
>   desktop entry without having the binary that should be executed by 
>   this desktop entry.

For what it's worth, it's not universally agreed that these circular
dependencies are evil and must be fixed. In this case all the relevant
binary packages come from the same source, so there is no reason for
version skew.


Hamish