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. > > 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.
The issue is that it is undefined whether perl and perl-modules will be configured first, which is something Depends is supposed to prevent. This make installations and upgrades less predictable. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
