On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages > > that had/have a self referencing depends, ie: > > > I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug and not something done > > deliberately. It looks like the packages I mentioned above are fixed in > > hamm so this only effects bo users and upgrading.. > > I suspect a self-referenced "Depends:" is always a bug. However, you also > reported a bug in the "ddd" package that "Provides:" itself. This type of > self-reference need not be a bug.
Check the archives, I brought this up for discussion a few months ago and some ppl fixed their packages but others haven't and 2 more ppl used this broken system so I filed bugs against them all. It was generally agreed that it is wrong for a package to provide itself, this is implicit. > For instance, take "unzip". The "unzip" and "unzip-crypt" (on non-US) > packages both provide the virtual package "unzip", so that other packages Unzip does not need to provide unzip, it IS unzip and will match any depends for unzip. Only unzip-crypt needs to provide unzip because it isn't called unzip! The same is true for the 4 packages I filed bugs against. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .