On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:51:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:52:45PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Package: odbcinst > > Version: 2.2.11-20 > > Severity: important > > > Hello Steve, > > > There is a circular dependency between odbcinst and odbcinst1debian1: > > > odbcinst :Depends: odbcinst1debian1 (>= 2.2.11-3) > > odbcinst1debian1 :Depends: odbcinst > > Yes, there is, and it's an unavoidable one (and not a bug). odbcinst must > be split out because shared library packages should not ship config files > (especially non-conffile config files as we now do) or utilities; it must > depend on odbcinst1debian1 because the utility uses this library; and the > library package must depend on odbcinst because the library needs the config > files.
Hello Steve, I am concerned that the situation you mention is quite common and resolving it this way will lead to a marked increase in the number of circular dependencies in Debian. Even in such situations, there are various ways to avoid the circular dependency. The first way: odbcinst1debian1 shlib could look like: libodbcinst 1 odbcinst1debian1,odbcinst This way every package linked against odbcinst1debian1 would also depend on odbcinst, alleviating the need for odbcinst1debian1 itself to depend on odbcinst. The second way: Add a new package odbcinst-config that contains the configuration files and set up the dependencies as follow: odbcinst -> odbcinst1debian1 -> odbcinst-config I am sure you can come up with a third, better, way. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
