[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#717329: sysv-rc has circular Depends on sysvinit-utils

[Bill Allombert]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:49:11AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Bill Allombert]
> > Hello Debian sysvinit maintainers,
> 
> Hi.
> 
> > There is a circular dependency between sysv-rc and sysvinit-utils:
> >
> > sysv-rc 	:Depends: sysvinit-utils (>= 2.86.ds1-62)
> > sysvinit-utils 	:Depends: sysv-rc (>= 2.88dsf-24) | file-rc (>= 0.8.16)
> >
> > Circular dependencies involving shared libraries are known to cause problems
> > during upgrade between stable releases, so we should try to get rid of
> > them.
> 
> I was planning to get rid of this, but am unable to figure out where it
> come from.  Might be my fever induced head, but I see the sysvinit ->
> sysv-rc dependency on
> <URL: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/sysvinit-utils >, but am
> completely unable to find it in the git source:
> 
> pkg-sysvinit/sysvinit-git$ grep sysv-rc debian/control 
>  sysv-rc | file-rc,
> Package: sysv-rc
> Suggests: sysv-rc-conf, bum
>  sysvinit-utils (>= 2.88dsf-50), sysv-rc | file-rc,
> pkg-sysvinit/sysvinit-git$
> 
> And the git history do not show when it disappeared either, so I am very
> confused.  Anyone able to understand what happened with this dependency?

<http://debian.semistable.com/unstable_diffs.txt>
states that it disappeared on Fri Dec 27 05:00:59 CET 2013

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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