Bug#527917: please break circular dependency

2009-05-11 Thread Brendan O'Dea
For reference, an install/remove of perl on current unstable: # apt-get install perl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: make perl-modules Suggested packages: make-doc perl-doc

Bug#527917: please break circular dependency

2009-05-11 Thread Niko Tyni
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 08:52:46AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: Whats wrong with making perl depend perl-modules and making perl-modules only recommend perl? (I do the same with the tuxtype and tuxtype-data

Bug#527917: please break circular dependency

2009-05-09 Thread Holger Levsen
package: perl User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts piuparts.d.o Hi Brendan, thanks for maintaining perl! As you'll know perl depends on perl-modules and perl-modules depends on perl, which is called a circular dependency, which sometimes breaks apt (not dpkg) in interesting

Bug#527917: please break circular dependency

2009-05-09 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: Whats wrong with making perl depend perl-modules and making perl-modules only recommend perl? (I do the same with the tuxtype and tuxtype-data packages, and tuxtype-data is also basically useless without tuxtype. You