Hi James!
>This should work with a normal Depends relation (reread Policy 7.2). > >This commit helped since it prevented a circular dependency involving >the two packages: >https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/commit/?id=68f57408199e304df63285910a360bc2f6ae2372 > >So after that commit, a normal Depends from virtualbox to virtualbox >-dkms should be all that's nessesary. thanks for the useful pointer, I admit I get headache when I have to deal with such things :) however, according to the debdiff of the fix: @@ -87,11 +87,9 @@ Package: virtualbox Architecture: amd64 i386 -Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~) +Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~), virtualbox-dkms (= ${source:Version}) | virtualbox-source (= ${source:Version}) Depends: adduser, ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} -Recommends: virtualbox-dkms (= ${source:Version}) | virtualbox-source (= ${source:Version}), - virtualbox-qt (= ${binary:Version}), - ${shlibs:Recommends} +Recommends: virtualbox-qt (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Recommends} Suggests: vde2, virtualbox-guest-additions-iso Conflicts: virtualbox-2.0, virtualbox-2.1, @@ -132,7 +130,8 @@ Section: contrib/kernel Architecture: all Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~) -Depends: virtualbox (>= ${source:Version}), ${misc:Depends} +Depends: ${misc:Depends} +Recommends: virtualbox (>= ${source:Version}) Description: x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on a prior the virtualbox-dkms | virtualbox-source was in Recommends, not in Depends. was it really a circular dependency? Now the package works, so I would like to avoid breaking it again :) cheers, Gianfranco
