severity 39204 normal merge 39204 38393 38754 38381 38288 thanks On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 08:59:26AM +0300, Hannu Koivisto wrote: > dpkg: ../../../main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' > failed. > zsh: 3844 abort (core dumped) dpkg --configure --pending
This is a known bug, reported n+1 times already. The problem is that dpkg does not handle certain types of circular dependencies well. Workaround: use --force-depends to configure the offending packages The offending circular dependency will be resolved before release. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% "... memory leaks are quite acceptable in many applications ..." (Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++, page 220)
