On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:42:35PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > There is a circular dependency between libboost-python1.40-dev and > libboost1.40-dev: > > libboost-python1.40-dev :Depends: libboost1.40-dev (= 1.40.0-2) > libboost1.40-dev :Depends: libboost-python1.40-dev > > In that instance, since libboost-python1.40-dev are from the same source > package and both 'arch:any', I do not see the point of splitting them if > the user is required to install both of them.
Indeed. There ought to be no dependency of boost-dev on boost-python-dev, but such a dependency was inadvertently introduced (#548503). I added the package dependency as a workaround for the build failures. Recently, Sune Vuorela provided a cleaner fix for the problem (#550006) which I'll likely adopt and that will fix this bug as well. Regards, -Steve
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