Cyclic dependencies between alcotest/tyxml/odoc

[Khady]

recently getting this in the CI of a project. I suspect that there is a problem since a recent release (might be odoc 1.5.1?)

Run opam depext notabot --yes --with-doc --with-test
# Detecting depexts using vars: arch=x86_64, os=linux, os-distribution=ubuntu, os-family=debian
[ERROR] No solution for notabot: The actions to process have cyclic dependencies:
          - ∗ alcotest.1.1.0 → ∗ tyxml.4.4.0 → ∗ odoc.1.5.1 → ∗ alcotest.1.1.0

The list of deps in my project:

 "ocaml" {>= "4.03.0"}
 "dune" {>= "2.5.0"}
 "atdgen"
 "base"
 "cmdliner"
 "devkit"
 "hex"
 "lwt"
 "lwt_ppx"
 "nocrypto"
 "stdio"
 "uri"
 "ocamlformat" {dev & = "0.13.0"}

[kit-ty-kate]

I believe this is fixed in opam 2.1. I reported the same kind of issue here: ocaml-opam/opam-depext#121

The workaround here would be to call opam depext without argument, then with just --with-test, then with just --with-doc, all separately. In your case however the --with-test and --with-doc arguments are not necessary since you don't have any doc or test dependencies

[Khady]

thanks for the tip