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Circular dependencies are not a good idea



Hi Jeroen,

I'd disagree with your opinion that this issue (abuse-lib should depend 
on abuse) is really a bug.

You are suggesting something that would create a circular dependency 
which is something e.g. apt doesn't always handle optimally.
A similar example is e.g. tetex-base which doesn't depend on tetex-bin 
for exactly this reason.

As long as non-fulfillable are treated as RC bugs the current Recommends 
is enough since a missing abuse in sarge is then a reason for a RC bug 
on abuse-lib also causing the removal of abuse-lib from sarge.

cu
Adrian

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