On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:01:21PM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote: >On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:40:32PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: >> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:49:36PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: >> >Here the lists of packages involved in circular dependencies listed by >> >maintainers. >> > >> > perl >> > perl-modules >> >> These two packages are meant to be installed together, split only for >> arch any/all. >> >> I'm a bit puzzled as to why this is a problem, since this particular >> dependency exists in sarge and as far as I no caused no upgrade issues. > >what about the issue showing up in conjunction with doc-base? both perl and >perl-modules were installed, but not in matching versions (due to apt being >confused about the circular dep) during the upgrade >from 5.6 to 5.8, which made packages calling install-docs in their >maintainer scripts fail, if I remember correctly...
Different issue. The problem there was outside of the scope of dependencies: since install-docs gets called conditionally, packages don't declare a dependency on doc-base, so don't get the dependency on perl and install-docs may be called before all required packages are configured. Having install-docs work only with essential packages (perl-base) fixes that problem (fixed in 0.7.18-0.1). See http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2004/12/msg00000.html and http://bugs.debian.org/278495 for details. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
