[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#545852: aide-common has circular Depends on aide

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:27:07PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:49:56PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > There is a circular dependency between aide-common and aide:
> > 
> > aide-common 	:Depends: aide | aide-binary
> > aide 	        :Depends: aide-common (= 0.13.1-11)
> > 
> > Circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade,
> 
> As the aide packages have been like this for at least two stable
> releases, and I haven't heard of any problems, I'd like to know more
> about the possible evil things that could happen.
> 
> The aide binary packages do not have any maintainer scripts, so the
> only thing important is that the binary package is present and
> _unpacked_ before aide-common is configured. afaik, dpkg breaks
> circular dependencies at the package that doesn't have maintainer
> scripts and will thus do the right thing with aide.

As far as I know, dpkg will stop caring about other Depends in
other packages too and might cause other packages to fail to
install while they do have the proper depends.


Kurt