Bug#586424: dmsetup has circular Depends on libdevmapper1.02.1

[Bastian Blank]

severity 586424 normal
thanks

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 02:49:20PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> There is a circular dependency between dmsetup and libdevmapper1.02.1:
> dmsetup 	:Depends: libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.47)
> libdevmapper1.02.1 	:Depends: dmsetup (>= 2:1.02.48-2)

Known and documented.

> Circular dependencies involving shared libraries are known to cause problems
> during upgrade between stable releases, so we should try to get rid of them.

You are free to send a patch to acomplish this.

Bastian

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