Bug#285160: apt-get --reinstall produces dependency loops
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.27
There are certain combinations of packages that apt-get seems unable to
reinstall. It can do them in separate operations, in either order, but
try to reinstall them together, and...
apt-get install --reinstall debianutils coreutils
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2623kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
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E: Couldn't configure pre-depend coreutils for debianutils, probably a dependency cycle.
This is extremely annoying when reinstalling a long list of packages.
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