On fredagen den 23 oktober 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: > Currently there is a proposal[0] to combine perl-modules and perl into > a single package. perl-modules currently contains architecture > independent bits, and perl contains architecture dependent bits. > > FWICT, the primary argument[1] to do this is because perl and > perl-modules both require the other to function properly (so a > reflexive dependency or combining is reqeuired), and because circular > dependencies make things complicated for dpkg and other frontends.
IIUC, the problem is with the ordering of the postinst scripts. "Depends" means that the other package has to be in the configured state before the depending package's postinst script can be run, but in many cases the depending package has no postinst script or the dependency doesn't apply to the postinst script but merely to the application as such after installation. Would a new package relationship, say "Post-Depends", be helpful? -- Magnus Holmgren holmg...@debian.org Debian Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
