[Ian Jackson] >There is still nothing per se wrong with circular dependencies
[Thorsten Glaser] > Actually, I’m hitting an APT bug during dist-upgrades right now for > packages with circular dependencies, usually two (perl with > perl-modules, and g++-$version with its library), when they are > indirectly depended on by a package with Important: yes set, as was > recommended for metapackages which should not be considered by APT > for automatic removal. A similar issue with libqt4-dbus is blocking upgrades of a desktop installation from squeeze to wheezy the last two weeks (as detected by jenkins.debian.net). See <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/655382 > and related BTS reports for the details. I really hope we can get rid of the circular package dependencies. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2fl62428rn7....@login2.uio.no
