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

[Bill Allombert]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 03:08:53PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> 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.

Well, move the udev rules to devmapper-udev-rules and set up the dependencies
as follow:

dmsetup -> libdevmapper1.02.1 -> devmapper-udev-rules

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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