The only way we could resolve this is to make libwww-perl not depend on liblwp-protocol-https-perl and to get all packages that use LWP::protocol::https to depend on liblwp-protocol-https-perl explicitly. We considered that at the time but tracking down dependencies on liblwp-protocol-https-perl will be hard since the LWP::protocol::https module might not be referred to explicitly.
There are over 300 dependencies on libwww-perl. We can grep the source code of those packages for references to 'https'. However even then there may be a dependency, may be not a Depends, but at least a Recommends, that we miss. On 24/05/11 09:55, Bill Allombert wrote: > Package: liblwp-protocol-https-perl > Version: 6.02-1 > Severity: important > > Hello Debian Perl Group, > > There is a circular dependency between liblwp-protocol-https-perl and > libwww-perl: > > liblwp-protocol-https-perl :Depends: libwww-perl (>= 6.02) > libwww-perl :Depends: liblwp-protocol-https-perl > > Circular dependencies involving libraries are known to cause problems > during upgrade between stable releases, so we should try to get rid of them. > > Cheers, -- Nicholas Bamber | http://www.periapt.co.uk/ PGP key 3BFFE73C from pgp.mit.edu
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