On 18 March 2006 at 16:54, Bill Allombert wrote:
| On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 04:46:22PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > Hi Bill,
| >
| > On 12 March 2006 at 23:04, Bill Allombert wrote:
| > | Package: gretl-common
| > | Version: 1.5.0-2
| > | Severity: important
| > |
| > | Hello Dirk,
| > |
| > | There is a circular dependency involving gretl-common, libgretl1 and
gretl:
| > |
| > | gretl-common :Depends: gretl (= 1.5.0-2)
| > | libgretl1 :Depends: gretl
| > | gretl :Depends: libgretl1 (>= 1.5.0), gretl-common
| >
| > That is on purpose but could possibly be improved. They also "inter-depend"
| > ie libgretl1 has no reverse depends other than gretl itself. So in a way
they
| > will only ever get upgraded together.
|
| Hello Dirk,
| Sorry I did not answer sooner, but this bug was mostly autogenerated
| and I did not had time to review the situation and give a meaningful
I suspected as much. And did't you have to participate in some Debian-related
debates lately? Not that I follow that that closely ...
| advice.
|
| After your fix, we have now:
|
| gretl-common: Depends:
| libgretl1 : Depends:
| gretl : Depends: libgretl1 (>= 1.5.0), gretl-common
|
| I fully support this solution.
|
| Generally, I think dependencies should follow a hierachical pattern:
| a main package depending in secondary packages.
Yup. It could still be that gretl would have been easier to handle as a large
monolithic package, but this seems to work now.
| Thanks for your quick attention to this report,
Thanks for all your work on this nice 'graph theory' problem. Must be
challenging for for 15,000 packages ...
I'd also love to plug you into bettering the menu system in Quantian but I
understand that you may not have the bandwidth for it. I also hear that
Knoppix 5.0 (== next release) is moving in big steps to be closer to Debian,
debian-installer, knoppix updateability etc So this may be worth revisiting
if we both can make some time for it.
Amities, Dirk
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