On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 07:08:21PM +1100, Peter Moulder wrote:
> From section 7.2 `Binary Dependencies' of debian-policy:
>
> # `Depends'
> # This declares an absolute dependency. A package will not be
> # configured unless all of the packages listed in its `Depends'
> # field have been correctly configured.
>
> Suppose that package A Depends on B, and package B Depends on A.
>
> My reading of the above policy excerpt is that is that circular
> dependencies are not allowed, since it would be impossible to configure
> either A or B without first configuring the other.[*1]
>
> Whereas, in fact, a number of dependency cycles do occur in Debian; a
According to a recent post by Wichert to -devel, a cyclic dependency
is OK, but all of the packages in the cycle have to be configured in
the same dpkg invocation.
Julian
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