On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 02:34:01PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > There is a circular dependency between debhelper, dh-autoreconf and > dh-strip-nondeterminism:
Haven't looked at dh-autoreconf, but regarding dh-strip-nondeterminism:
> dh-strip-nondeterminism :Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20151004), debhelper
> (<< 12.6~)
This is just incomplete:
Depends: libdebhelper-perl | debhelper (>= 9.20151004), libdebhelper-perl |
debhelper (<< 12.6~)
I.e., what it *really* depends on nowadays is libdebhelper-perl, not
debhelper. That was done exactly to prevent a circular dependency.
> Circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade, so we
> should try to avoid them.
Citation needed™. There are plenty of circular dependencies in the
archive, and very few actually cause problems.
What causes problems are circular build-dependencies, that often require
some work to break every time they need to be bootstrapped. For that
very reason, debhelper itself doesn't build-depend on neithre debhelper,
nor dh-strip-nondeterminism nor dh-autoreconf.
Can you please describe what you are really seeing and what problem you
are facing? Else this is just an xyproblem.
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