Re: Packages depending on each other
> On Sep 30, Eloy A. Paris wrote
> > I am just taking a look at libpam0 to see how hard it would be to
> > port them to libc6
Note that when making a libc6 package, you'll have to change the
names of the package etc. There's a good document about how to do
that somewhere (mail me if you don't have it).
> > and have just found that libpam0 depends on
> > libpam-util and libpam-util depends on libpam0. How's this possible?
>
> Because the maintainer specified the dependencies that way.
>
> > What does this mean?
>
> It means that you have to install them in one go of dpkg:
> dpkg -i libpam0*deb libpam-util*deb
>
> There is some discussion about this in the libpam0 bug reports:
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/llibpam0.html
....
Reading a couple of the bugs listed there
....
That still leaves me with the question
"Then why do we have two packages?"
If they have to be installed together anyway, they could just as
well be in one package (or am I being silly now?)
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