Rene Engelhard wrote: > Really? > > We once got a report that this seems to be a problem: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165036 That bug report didn't provide a full log of the failure, but as far as I can tell what probably happened is that openoffice.org failed to configure for some reason (not shown), and then as the log shows dpkg didn't set up openoffice.org-l10n-en. If openoffice's postinst script uses something that is only usable after openoffice.org-l10n-en is configured, then yes, that could lead to the result shown. On the other hand, if nothing in openoffice.org's postinst needs openoffice.org-debian-files to be configured (which seems likely), and the converse is also true, then there is no problem with having a cycle in the dependencies. It's even ok if either postinst needs the other package to be unpacked first, just not configured first, as order of configuration is indeterminate when there is a dependency cycle. There are dozens, if not hundreds of codependent packages in the archive; I maintain a few sets of them myself. The only problems that are ever run into is new users getting confused trying to install them with dpkg. -- see shy jo
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