On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:27:07PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:49:56PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > There is a circular dependency between aide-common and aide: > > > > aide-common :Depends: aide | aide-binary > > aide :Depends: aide-common (= 0.13.1-11) > > > > Circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade, > > As the aide packages have been like this for at least two stable > releases, and I haven't heard of any problems, I'd like to know more > about the possible evil things that could happen. > > The aide binary packages do not have any maintainer scripts, so the > only thing important is that the binary package is present and > _unpacked_ before aide-common is configured. afaik, dpkg breaks > circular dependencies at the package that doesn't have maintainer > scripts and will thus do the right thing with aide.
As far as I know, dpkg will stop caring about other Depends in other packages too and might cause other packages to fail to install while they do have the proper depends. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
