On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 05:57:54PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 16 avril 2006 ? 11:43 -0400, Justin Pryzby a ?crit : > > > > The fontconfig prerm runs defoma, which apparently runs fc-cache, > > > > which requires libfontconfig.so.1, but dependencies (apparently) > > > > aren't respected for prerm (although policy seems to imply that they > > > > are only not respected for postrm purge; this may be a policy bug). > > > Could you comment on the correctness of the policy document? > > When there are circular dependencies, such bugs happen, as apt and dpkg > don't know in what order to remove the packages. According to Bill > Allombert the only real fix is to remove all circular dependencies, but > it may be possible to improve dpkg's behavior. Ah. It wasn't clear to me that this was the cause. I just did a couple tests, and policy appears to be correct in implying that Depends are satisfied during prerm remove, but that this can break if a circular dependenency exists. Perhaps the document should specifically mention this, or just prohibit ciruclar depends?
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