[Aptitude-devel] aptitude 0.6.8-1

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Wed Jun 6 10:16:15 UTC 2012


Hi,

Sven Joachim wrote:
> There is a problem with aptitude-common, it has an apparently unintended
> circular dependency on aptitude.  This happens because
> /usr/share/doc/aptitude-common is a symlink to aptitude, and debhelper
> helpfully creates the dependency to respect Policy § 12.3.

Just from what I read in Sven's mail, I expect that this should be
easily solvable by doing the symlink the other way round, as files in
/usr/share/doc/aptitude should not contain any arch-dependent stuff
anyway.

		Regards, Axel
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