The problem here is: new lenses won't work with versions prior to 0.7.0
because there are some new functionalities that are included since
0.7.0, and libaugeas won't work without augeas-lenses, did you have any
other suggestion on how to tell dpkg that without having the circular
dependency?

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Bill Allombert wrote:

> Package: augeas-lenses
> Version: 0.7.0-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Hello Nicolas,
> 
> There is a circular dependency between augeas-lenses and libaugeas0:
> 
> augeas-lenses         :Depends: libaugeas0 (>= 0.7.0)
> libaugeas0    :Depends: augeas-lenses
> 
> Circular dependencies involving shared libraries are known to cause problems
> during upgrade between stable releases, so we should try to get rid of them.
> 
> See threads 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg02111.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg01101.html
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Bill. <[email protected]>
> 
> Imagine a large red swirl here. 
> 
> 

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