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Bug#798588: marked as done (bugs.debian.org: Dependency cycle from install-info)

Your message dated Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:50:47 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #798588,
regarding bugs.debian.org: Dependency cycle from install-info
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Package: bugs.debian.org
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Upon running

apt-get install --reinstall --purge dpkg install-info

It said that it could not configure install-info, "probably due to a
depency cycle". However it worked fine when I reinstalled each individually.
This is however making some installation scripts I have fail, because they
expect some of the software to be in a tree. Is this by design?

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian 3.18.0-8-generic
Release:	3.18.0-8-generic
Codename:	testing
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.18.0-8-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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Hi,

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:54:55PM -0700, Alex Meiburg wrote:
> apt-get install --reinstall --purge dpkg install-info

The command is… strange… and the mentioning of "installation scripts"
makes me shudder: --reinstall is only ever of use if you were careless
as root and deleted files you shouldn't have (= which belong to
a package), which doesn't even involve the most common accidentally
removed files: conf-files.

"probably due" is a dpkg idiom and at least in stable dpkg and
install-info have a cycle as dpkg breaks while the other pre-depends on
dpkg, so a broken install-info can't be fixed without fixing dpkg first
and a broken dpkg can't be fixed as install-info can't be properly
deconfigured.

Anyway, cycles aren't a problem of apt/dpkg, but of the packages forming
them and --reinstall shouldn't be used as deliberate as it is, so this
is part "bug" somewhere else (which disappeared in the meantime and
wasn't really one before), part misuse of --reinstall and the third part
is the insane fun™ of install ordering.

Closing hence as not a bug.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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