Le jeudi 12 janvier 2006 à 01:49 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar a écrit : > > At the very least, I think they should be treated like pre-depends, with > > a request on this list being mandatory before adding a circular > > dependency. Until now, all circular dependencies cases I have met were > > fixable. At first, some of them looked necessary and they required quite > > some work, but they were fixable. > > You know when you're adding a pre-depends. You're typing the word > "Pre-Depends" in a debian/control file. > > You don't know when you're introducing a circular depends that easily, > and it could be either of the packages in the circle that shouldn't have > such a depends, not necessarily the last one that closed the circle > should change.
Sure, and I agree Bill's checks should go on. However, looking at the list, a vast majority of circular dependencies come from the same source package. This could be checked e.g. by lintian. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom