"Manoj Srivastava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:09:56 -0400, Joe Smith
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Well, strictly speaking all circular dependencies could be
considered a policy violation because they depend on dpkg not
working as policy states it does.
Could you elaborate on this?
manoj
In the sense that you are abusing the terms of policy. It is true that dpkg
will install and configure with circular dependecies,
but Policy states "A package will not be configured unless all of the
packages listed in its Depends field have been correctly configured."
Clearly if dpkg really enforeced that, no circular dependecy would ever work
as the packages would be installed, but could not be configured because a
depencency was not configured.
Depending on a package not acting in the manner in which policy states it
will could be considered a type of policy violation.
Granted it would not be sensical to report this as a bug on dpkg because it
is simply going beyond what policy states it will do.
I would say that no package is directly violating policy, but ther packages
are abusing policy. In one sense policy itself is the buggy package because
it asserts something that is not true.
Then again, that section of policy looks a bit dated anyway, mentioning
"dselect" despite the fact that that package is now all but completely
obsoleted by apt and the various apt-frontends.
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