[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#549935: Bug#549935: libboost-python1.40-dev: circular dependency with libboost1.40-dev

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:42:35PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:

> There is a circular dependency between libboost-python1.40-dev and libboost1.40-dev:
> 
> libboost-python1.40-dev 	:Depends: libboost1.40-dev (= 1.40.0-2)
> libboost1.40-dev 	:Depends: libboost-python1.40-dev
> 
> In that instance, since libboost-python1.40-dev are from the same source
> package and both 'arch:any', I do not see the point of splitting them if
> the user is required to install both of them.

Indeed.  There ought to be no dependency of boost-dev on
boost-python-dev, but such a dependency was inadvertently
introduced (#548503).  I added the package dependency 
as a workaround for the build failures.

Recently, Sune Vuorela provided a cleaner fix for the
problem (#550006) which I'll likely adopt and that
will fix this bug as well.

Regards,
-Steve
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