Bug#296211: Bug#296206: libgtk2.0-0 and libgtk2.0-bin cross-depend to each other

[Szucs Gabor]

On Monday 21 February 2005 11.19, you wrote:
> unmerge 296206
> severity 296206 normal
> close 296206
> thanks
>
>         Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005, Szucs Gabor wrote:
> > >  There's no problem with cross-dependencies in Depends, see all the
> > >  -common packages, but it seems there is a problem with dependency on
> > >  libgtk2.0-0 on itself (see #296175).
> >
> > Nope... what you're saying about self-dependency is true, but take a look
> > at the control files and you'll see that they depend on each other, too.
>
>  Yes, and it's perfectly valid.
>
> > These console snippets below prove this for the sarge versions of these
> > packages:
> > sniper:/float/sniper# dpkg -i /home/sniper/libgtk2.0-0_2.4.14-2_i386.deb
>
>  You're not supposed to manage packages with "dpkg" directly, use a
>  package manager such as apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, or dselect.

I'm not a fool... 
I'm using dselect.
But it's much easier to install a manually dl'ed package saying dpkg -i 
package, than to use anything else for that.
>
>  Did you use the same method to install Gtk in #296211?
>
:)

>  I'm closing this bug (#296206), if you used a package manager to
>  upgrade your system, please reopen the bug (or mail me).
>
I'll do both.

>    Regards,