Bug#190558: openoffice.org: circular dependencies between openoffice.org and openoffice.org-bin
Torsdag 24. april 2003 14:43 skreiv Henning Glawe:
> Package: openoffice.org
> Version: 1.0.2-2
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
>
> When using FAI or a similar autoinstaller, many packages may be left
> unconfigure because of circular dependencies between openoffice.org
> packages. apt-get is called with a _long_ list of packages to install,
> which are partly fet unconfigured if one of them fails to configure.
This is a bug in apt, really. dpkg will handle circular dependencies like this
one just fine. When talking to dpkg, apt will split a long package list into
smaller chunks without regards to possible circular dependencies. When this
splitting (coincidentally) breaks a circular dependency, the install will
fail like you describe.
Circular dependencies are quite common, and the "Debian people" don't seem to
agree on whether they're bad or not.
A similar circular dependency was reported last year:
<URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165036 >
... and decided against:
<URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=172057 >
The apt bug is reported here:
<URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=172339 >
Regards,
Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes
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