Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> E: Couldn't configure pre-depend x11-common for libxft2, probably a
> dependency cycle.
>
> I could reproduce it outside piuparts. If debconf is not installed, and you
> try to install cdebconf, you run into a problem:
> cdebconf depends on libxft2
> libxft2 pre-depends on x11-common
> x11-common pre-depends on debconf | debconf-2.0
>
> For some reason, apt doesn't understand that it can solve this by installing
> first debconf, then x11-common, then cdebconf...
>From apt POV, cdebconf and debconf are equivalent since you want cdebconf and
>not a
debconf alternative installed and then it doesn't know how to solve
it.
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