Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4
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.
>
> Note that the dependency expressed is not exactly circular, since the
> perl-modules dependency on perl is "looser" than the inverse. Don't
> know if this matters for the problem you're trying to fix.
The issue is that it is undefined whether perl and perl-modules will be
configured first, which is something Depends is supposed to prevent.
This make installations and upgrades less predictable.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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