On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:40:32PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:49:36PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > >Here the lists of packages involved in circular dependencies listed by > >maintainers. > > > > perl > > perl-modules > > These two packages are meant to be installed together, split only for > arch any/all. > > I'm a bit puzzled as to why this is a problem, since this particular > dependency exists in sarge and as far as I no caused no upgrade issues.
what about the issue showing up in conjunction with doc-base? both perl and perl-modules were installed, but not in matching versions (due to apt being confused about the circular dep) during the upgrade from 5.6 to 5.8, which made packages calling install-docs in their maintainer scripts fail, if I remember correctly... > Note that the dependency expressed is not exactly circular, since the > perl-modules dependency on perl is "looser" than the inverse. Don't > know if this matters for the problem you're trying to fix. it is not "looser" if you look at it from the perspective of a sarge->etch update... -- c u henning
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