[Aptitude-devel] aptitude 0.6.8-1

[Sven Joachim]

On 2012-06-06 12:16 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:

> 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.

Except for the Debian changelog whenever the package is binNMU'ed.
There's also the problem of aptitude-doc* currently shipping files under
/usr/share/doc/aptitude, which makes converting that directory into a
symlink somewhat difficult.

Cheers,
       Sven