Bug#341018: libgamin0 has circular Depends on gamin

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Sun Nov 27 20:34:05 UTC 2005


Le dimanche 27 novembre 2005 à 20:54 +0100, Bill Allombert a écrit :
> There is a circular dependency between libgamin0 and gamin:
> 
> libgamin0 :Depends: gamin
> gamin 	  :Depends: libgamin0 (= 0.1.7-2)
> 
> Circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade,
> so we should try to get rid of them.
> 
> Since libgamin0 is a library package, it is quite likely it does not
> need actually to depend on gamin and removing this dependency would
> remove the circular dependency, so I would suggest you do so.

Actually this dependency is needed, because gamin is a daemon. The
problem is similar to GConf or gnome-vfs, and will have to be fixed in a
similar way.

Regards,
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