Bug#963883: liblwp-protocol-https-perl: circular dependency with libwww-perl

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:46:55 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:

> There is a circular dependency between liblwp-protocol-https-perl and libwww-perl:
> 
> liblwp-protocol-https-perl 	:Depends: libwww-perl (>= 6.05-2)
> libwww-perl 	                :Depends: liblwp-protocol-https-perl
> 
> Circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade, so we
> should try to avoid them.

This circular dependency exists since May 2011, i.e. since
liblwp-protocol-https-perl was split off from libwww-perl.

I don't remember any problems in the last 9 years, and I fail to
immediately see which problems this could cause.

Please note that there is no circular _build_ dependency (and even if
there were, all pure test dependencies are annotated with <!nocheck>
in both packages).


Cheers,
gregor

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