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FS#40376 - Dependency Cycle. freetype2<->harfbuzz

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Tom (tomarchbug) - Thursday, 15 May 2014, 13:57 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 15 May 2014, 17:47 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
The freetype2 and harfbuzz packages depend on each other and thus create a dep cycle.

% pacman -Si harfbuzz freetype2 [14:54]
Repository : extra
Name : harfbuzz
Version : 0.9.26-2
Description : OpenType text shaping engine
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz
Licences : MIT
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : glib2 freetype2 graphite
Optional Deps : cairo: hb-view program
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 224.11 KiB
Installed Size : 1740.00 KiB
Packager : Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
Build Date : Sat 05 Apr 2014 12:06:06 BST
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA256 Sum Signature

Repository : extra
Name : freetype2
Version : 2.5.3-2
Description : TrueType font rendering library
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://freetype.sourceforge.net
Licences : GPL
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : zlib bzip2 sh libpng harfbuzz
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 412.14 KiB
Installed Size : 1828.00 KiB
Packager : Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Mon 17 Mar 2014 17:26:29 GMT
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA256 Sum Signature
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 17:47 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  This is an upstream issue, also documented in release notes. Pacman handles it well, so we'll just wait until both projects get merged upstream.

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