[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#975072: libgkarrays1 has circular Depends on libgkarrays-dev

Bill Allombert ballombe at debian.org
Wed Nov 18 18:09:20 GMT 2020


Package: libgkarrays-dev
Version: 2.1.0+dfsg-3
Severity: important

Hello Debian Med Packaging Team,

There is a circular dependency between libgkarrays-dev and libgkarrays1:

libgkarrays-dev 	:Depends: libgkarrays1 (= 2.1.0+dfsg-3)
libgkarrays1 	:Depends: libgkarrays-dev (>= 2.1.0+dfsg)

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

The dependency of libgkarrays1 on libgkarrays-dev is quite unusual.

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

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