Re: circular build-dependency in debconf
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:26:53PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> debconf_0.3.81.dsc has:
>
> Build-Depends: perl5, debhelper (>= 2.0.98), debconf-utils, gettext,
> libapt-pkg-dev, g++
>
> But dpkg -p debconf-utils says:
>
> Depends: debconf (>= 0.3.31)
>
> So one can't compile debconf without having it already installed. Is
> this circular dependeny policy-compliant, or should it be?
There was a big flame war here about this sometime ago, because some
packages (ocaml, gnat, gcc) absoluetly need the package to compile. So
it can't be a policy violation without big changes. The best you can do
is request that debconf not depend on itself.
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