Re: Self Referencing depends
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages
> that had/have a self referencing depends, ie:
> I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug and not something done
> deliberately. It looks like the packages I mentioned above are fixed in
> hamm so this only effects bo users and upgrading..
I suspect a self-referenced "Depends:" is always a bug. However, you also
reported a bug in the "ddd" package that "Provides:" itself. This type of
self-reference need not be a bug.
For instance, take "unzip". The "unzip" and "unzip-crypt" (on non-US)
packages both provide the virtual package "unzip", so that other packages
can have a "Depends: unzip" (the virtual one), without having to know which
packages actually provide that functionality.
Ray
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