[Aptitude-devel] aptitude 0.6.8-1

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Sven,

Sven Joachim 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.

Indeed.

> 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.

*nod*

		Regards, Axel
-- 
 ,''`.  |  Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/
: :' :  |  Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin
`. `'   |  1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486  202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
  `-    |  4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329  6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5