Re: Bug#42052: PROPOSAL] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail
In article <[🔎] 19990804084754.87167189C@hobbes.home.ruud.org>, Ruud de
Rooij <ruud@ruud.org> writes
>From the Packaging manual, section 8.2:
>
> Thus `Depends' allows package maintainers to impose an order in which
> packages should be configured.
>
> `dpkg' will not configure packages whose dependencies aren't
> satisfied.
>
>If dpkg does run postinsts in the wrong order, then we might just as well
>turn all depends fields into pre-depends.
What does dpkg do in the case of circular dependencies?
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