Hi, On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 16:40 +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi James! > > > This should work with a normal Depends relation (reread Policy 7.2). > > > > This commit helped since it prevented a circular dependency involving > > the two packages: > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/commit/?id=68f57408199e304df63285910a360bc2f6ae2372 > > > > So after that commit, a normal Depends from virtualbox to virtualbox > > -dkms should be all that's nessesary. > > thanks for the useful pointer, I admit I get headache when I have to deal with such things :) > > however, according to the debdiff of the fix: [...] > prior the virtualbox-dkms | virtualbox-source was in Recommends, not in Depends. > > was it really a circular dependency? No sorry I meant that if you had added a normal Depends without the above commit, you would have created a circular dependency. Before these changes, the dependency from virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox was causing virtualbox to always be configured first. James
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