Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

> >> 1) foo and foo-data. There is usualy no reason for foo-data to
> >> depend on foo. foo-data does not provide user-visible interface,
> >> only data, so it does not need to depend on foo.
> 
> > However, we have some users randomly filing bugs on 
> > foo-data that doesn't get uninstalled if it's no longer useful.
> 
> Have these users use aptitude.

Document *that* in the policy; or you can monitor debian-bugs-dist 
and stamp on every bug resembling that.

We are quite a distributed bunch of folks.




regards,
	junichi

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