Bug#316283: warn about intra-source circular dependencies

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.9
Severity: wishlist

Hello Lintian maintainers,

I would like to propose that Lintian emits a warning when a source package
(or change files) include circular dependencies between the generated
packages. 
An example:

Source package S generate two binary packages P1 and P2 
P1 depends on P2 and P2 depends on P1.

You could flag a warning
"circular dependency between P1 and P2"

You can invoke policy 7.2;

     `Depends'
          This declares an absolute dependency.  A package will not be
          configured unless all of the packages listed in its `Depends'
          field have been correctly configured.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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