On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 01:35:44PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Tue, 24 May 2011 10:55:03 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > There is a circular dependency between liblwp-protocol-https-perl and > > libwww-perl: > > > > liblwp-protocol-https-perl :Depends: libwww-perl (>= 6.02) > > libwww-perl :Depends: liblwp-protocol-https-perl > > > > Circular dependencies involving libraries are known to cause problems > > during upgrade between stable releases, so we should try to get rid of them. > > While this is generally true, I don't see the concrete problems in > this case.
You need to consider the upgrade from weezy to wheezy+1 into account. It is the one where the circular dependency will cause problem. > Current state (squeeze): > libwww-perl: 5.836-1 > liblwp-protocol-https-perl: n/a > > Upgrade to wheezy: > libwww-perl 5.836-1 -> 6.x, which pulls in > liblwp-protocol-https-perl, which needs libwww-perl >= 6.02 (and > Breaks/Replaces older versions of libwww-perl), which is upgraded > anyway. Cannot you replace Depends: libwww-perl >= 6.02 by Breaks: libwww-perl< 6.02 ? Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
