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#263816: Circular dependency libgcj5 <-> libgcj5-common,
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Subject: Re: Bug#263816: Circular dependency libgcj5 <-> libgcj5-common
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David A. Cobb writes:
Package: libgcj5
Version: 3.4.1-5_i386
Download packages.
Attempting to configure, libgcj5 depends on libgcj5-common; however
libgcj5-common depends on libgcj5.
DPKG goes a bit crazy trying to cope with this.
changed in 3.4.1-4sarge1 uploaded to testing-proposed-updates. libgcj5
doesn't need to depend on libgcj5-common. just recommend it.