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Re: 2Removal: handling circular dependencies

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Simon McVittie wrote:
> You've listed dbus-python as being part of this cycle, but [it probably shouldn't be]
> Perhaps some of the blocks have been added the wrong way round?

Or perhaps the script is imperfectly guessing which binaries are Python 
2?  e.g. matplotlib is listed even though it's already a Python 3 only 
package.

> I wonder whether parts of the 159-package cycle are actually smaller
> cycles with non-trivial intersection

Very likely: by "tangle" I meant 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongly_connected_component

i.e. not a single cycle, but you still can't remove any subset of them 
(other than all or none) without breaking at least some of the remaining 
ones.

>> (Assuming we're still using "broken Suggests are not
>> allowed": this has previously been discussed, I forget where.)
> 
> I think that's much too strong

If the question is still open for discussion, I'd also prefer letting 
Suggests be temporarily broken over making extra uploads to remove them. 
  (I haven't checked how much this would break up the 159-tangle.)

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2Removal: handling circular dependencies / dropping tests before the  binary? "Rebecca N. Palmer" <rebecca_palmer@zoho.com> - 2019-09-21 11:40 +0200
  Re: 2Removal: handling circular dependencies / dropping tests before  the binary? Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2019-09-21 12:00 +0200
    Re: 2Removal: handling circular dependencies / dropping tests before  the binary? Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2019-09-21 23:10 +0200
  Re: 2Removal: handling circular dependencies "Rebecca N. Palmer" <rebecca_palmer@zoho.com> - 2019-10-24 00:40 +0200
    Re: 2Removal: handling circular dependencies Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2019-10-24 10:00 +0200
      Re: 2Removal: handling circular dependencies Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2019-10-24 10:10 +0200
        Re: 2Removal: handling circular dependencies "Rebecca N. Palmer" <rebecca_palmer@zoho.com> - 2019-10-24 19:50 +0200
    Re: 2Removal: handling circular dependencies Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2020-03-16 07:30 +0100
      Re: 2Removal: handling circular dependencies "Rebecca N. Palmer" <rebecca_palmer@zoho.com> - 2020-03-16 08:50 +0100

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