Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:01:21PM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote:
>On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:40:32PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
>> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:49:36PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
>> >Here the lists of packages involved in circular dependencies listed by
>> >maintainers.
>> >
>> > perl
>> > perl-modules
>>
>> These two packages are meant to be installed together, split only for
>> arch any/all.
>>
>> I'm a bit puzzled as to why this is a problem, since this particular
>> dependency exists in sarge and as far as I no caused no upgrade issues.
>
>what about the issue showing up in conjunction with doc-base? both perl and
>perl-modules were installed, but not in matching versions (due to apt being
>confused about the circular dep) during the upgrade
>from 5.6 to 5.8, which made packages calling install-docs in their
>maintainer scripts fail, if I remember correctly...
Different issue.
The problem there was outside of the scope of dependencies: since
install-docs gets called conditionally, packages don't declare a
dependency on doc-base, so don't get the dependency on perl and
install-docs may be called before all required packages are configured.
Having install-docs work only with essential packages (perl-base) fixes
that problem (fixed in 0.7.18-0.1).
See http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2004/12/msg00000.html and
http://bugs.debian.org/278495 for details.
--bod
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