Bug#237470: state of #237470

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

tags 237470 - moreinfo
found 237470 0.7.20.2+lenny2
found 237470 0.8.6
found 237470 0.8.8
thanks

* Eugene V. Lyubimkin <jackyf.devel@gmail.com>, 2008-10-26, 15:28:
> Hello Euan, can you reproduce bug with any packages in Lenny and apt in Lenny?
> Otherwise I am going to close it.

I can reproduce the bug in lenny, squeeze and sid by trying to reinstall 
dpkg and coreutils:

# apt-get install --reinstall dpkg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2195 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 131545 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.15.8.5 (using .../dpkg_1.15.8.5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up dpkg (1.15.8.5) ...

# apt-get install --reinstall coreutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/4608 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 131545 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace coreutils 8.5-1 (using .../coreutils_8.5-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement coreutils ...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up coreutils (8.5-1) ...

# apt-get install --reinstall dpkg coreutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/6803 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
E: Couldn't configure pre-depend coreutils for dpkg, probably a dependency cycle.

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Jakub Wilk