RFU: vdrift 0.0.2006.02.21-1

[Gonéri Le Bouder]

Le Vendredi 26 Mai 2006 19:37, Sam Hocevar a écrit :
> On Fri, May 26, 2006, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
> > > > IMHO there is no need to depend on the binary, apt frontends should
> > > > discover packages in such situation (aptitude does this).
> > >
> > > apt-get doesn't and i can't imagine a new game that depends on
> > > vdrift-data since this is not an official tarball. Maybe a different
> > > flavor of the package like vdrift-sdl or vdrift-oss will be create. In
> > > this case we can update vdrift-data depends.
> >
> > I switched back to "Depends:".
> >
> > If one day apt-get is able to deal with this situation, i will change it
> > to Recommends:
>
>    This is wrong. apt-get is *not* able to deal with the current
> situation (ie. circular dependencies). The -data package should not
> depend on the binary package, so if you want to wait until apt-get is
> fixed, you must remove the dependency (even Recommends: is useless).

Ok so if i understand, for the moment we have to keep a such circular 
dependencies for -data packages.

Regards,

	Gonér
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