Re: unsolvable circular dependencies and package splitting

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

* Steve Langasek 

| Shipping files in /usr/bin as part of a lib package causes problems for
| coinstallability when there's an soname change.  Even if you could guarantee
| forwards-compatibility of interfaces, and as a result ship /usr/bin/fc-cache
| in each lib package with Replaces:, there's the possibility you might remove
| a later version of the lib and take the config files with it...

That will also get you into an «interesting» situation with
multiarch paths.

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