Bug#387362: tomcat5.5: two circular dependencies

Bill Allombert allomber at math.u-bordeaux.fr
Mon Sep 18 17:03:22 UTC 2006


On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:32:46PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> > There is two circular dependencies between tomcat5.5, tomcat5.5-admin and
> > between tomcat5.5 and tomcat5.5-webapps:
> > 
> > tomcat5.5         :Depends: tomcat5.5-webapps (>= 5.5.17-1), tomcat5.5-admin (>= 5.5.17-1)
> > tomcat5.5-admin   :Depends: tomcat5.5 (>= 5.5.17-1)
> > tomcat5.5-webapps :Depends: tomcat5.5 (>= 5.5.17-1)
> 
> We could hack the default configuration files and only recommend or
> suggest -admin and -webapps.

Hello Arnaud,

Part of the question is why you splitted tomcat5.5 in three packages ?
(They are all arch: all from the same source).

The only advantage I would see is to allow to install them separatly but
the dependencies do not allow that.

But probably there is something else ?

Cheers,
Bill.




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