On 20050227T214242+0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > My understanding is that a self-depending package must be configured > before it can be configured, which makes it unconfigurable, and hence > uninstallable. And I think the same reasoning can be applied to > circular dependencies. But Loic disagrees.
Self-dependencies are harmless but ugly. Circular dependencies are sometimes (though very seldom) necessary (most of the time the same effect can be got from a -common package). Dpkg tries to break the cycle at the least problemous point, for example configuring a package with no postinst first. > Should a bug be filed against those packages? Minor severity at most, IMHO. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian
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