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Bug#172057: dummy RC bug



Hi Joey,

Joey Hess wrote:
> 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.

OK. We'll do so and change the appropriate Recommends: back to
Depends:

Thanks.

Regards,

Rene

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