Bug#529066: abuse: circular dependency hell

[Evgeni Golov]

clone 529066 -1
reassign 529066 abuse-lib
reassign -1 abuse-frabs
retitle 529066 abuse-lib should not depend on abuse (circular dependency)
retitle -1 abuse-frabs should not depend on abuse (circular dependency)
thanks

Hi Bill,

thanks for the report.

> There is a circular dependency between abuse, abuse-frabs and abuse-lib:
> 
> abuse 	:Depends: abuse-frabs, abuse-lib (>= 2.00-11)
> abuse-frabs 	:Depends: abuse (>= 1:0.7.0-1)
> abuse-lib 	:Depends: abuse (>= 1:0.7.0-1)

abuse-{lib,frabs} definetelly do not need a depends on abuse, as these are
just data sets for abuse. However it's not really usefull to install them
without having abuse installed, so I wonder if making a Recommends out of
Depends would be a sufficient solution for this problem? Or will apt still
do evil things when recommends are auto-installed? It won't, as far I can
see, but I'd like to have another opinion on this.

Regards
Evgeni Golov

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