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Re: Bug#188161: Reproduced in sid with a small set of packages



On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 11:13:17AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Yann Dirson wrote:
> 
> > Here the situation seems much simpler to investigate.  Unfortunately
> > it is my main box, and I'll have to upgrade things rapidly.  I'm
> > willing to provide more info, but please telle me quickly what info
> > you need.
> 
> This error is the result of a packaging mistake, creating circular
> predependencies or somesuch.

OK, then it would be useful for APT to write a better diagnostic,
ideally listing the packages in circular relationship.  It's quite
unfortunate that several error cases happen to hit the same error
statement.  Is there already an open bugreport on this circular
predependencies handling ?

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