Frank Lichtenheld writes ("Re: Bug#349442: dpkg dependtry assertion is due to
broken cycle breaking"):
> I guess that shows two things:
> 1) I really shouldn't do patches for the dependency handling code in
> dpkg
Well, it shows that you should be more cautious abou
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 07:08:26PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> The patch provided by Frank Lichtenfeld in #349442 is also wrong and
> might lead to infinite recursion. findbreakcyclerecursive is not
> allowed to recurse except via foundcyclebroken because
> foundcyclebroken is the thing which dete
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.13.11
Tags: patch
If you have a situation where some packages A, B, C
A -depends-> B' <-provides B
B -depends-> C' <-provides C
C -depends-> A' <-provides A
then dpkg doesn't break the cycle correctly. This breaks for any
length of cycle, not just 3 packages.
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