Bug#341854: Eclipse involve several circular Depends

[Michael Koch]

tag 341854 confirmed pending
thanks

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 05:31:31PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Package: eclipse-pde
> Version: 3.1.1-5
> Severity: important
> 
> Hello Debian Java Maintainers,
> 
> There is a circular dependency between eclipse-pde and eclipse-pde-common:
> 
> eclipse-pde 	   :Depends: eclipse-pde-common (= 3.1.1-5)
> eclipse-pde-common :Depends: eclipse-pde (= 3.1.1-5)
> 
> Eclispe involve some other other circular dependencies, see
> <http://debian.semistable.com/dot/eclipse-sdk_unstable.png>
> 
> Circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade and
> testing migration, especialy overly complex ones, so we should try to
> get rid of them.
> 
> See threads 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg02111.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg01101.html

Thanks for your report. I commited a fix to our CVS. This will be
uploaded as eclipse 3.1.1-7 to the archive soon.


Cheers,
Michael
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