Hi, On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:49:56PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > There is a circular dependency between aide-common and aide: > > aide-common :Depends: aide | aide-binary > aide :Depends: aide-common (= 0.13.1-11) > > Circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade,
As the aide packages have been like this for at least two stable releases, and I haven't heard of any problems, I'd like to know more about the possible evil things that could happen. The aide binary packages do not have any maintainer scripts, so the only thing important is that the binary package is present and _unpacked_ before aide-common is configured. afaik, dpkg breaks circular dependencies at the package that doesn't have maintainer scripts and will thus do the right thing with aide. Removing aide-common's dependency on any aide binary package would mean changing all scripts to gracefully handle the (senseless) case where aide-common is installed without any aide binary package. I'd rather avoid that additional complexity. For the time being, I'm tempted to tag this bug wontfix unless somebody explains to me what could happen and why it didn't already happen in a past release. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
