Bug#384674: asterisk has circular Depends on asterisk-bristuff|asterisk-classic

[Bill Allombert]

reopen 384674
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> Bill,
> 
> as all three come from the same source and just put together that all
> common parts in "asterisk" actually are acompanied by either one of the
> real binary packages, this is not very much different than any other
> daemon-common package.

Yes, and as all other daemon-common do not lead to circular dependencies,
so should asterisk. circular deps break assumptions about the order in
which packages are configured which is often crucial for daemons.

Apt and dpkg does not know about source packages so being part of the
same source make no difference. 

> The sole reason we've put the asterisk with a
> Depends as well is that all the init script and other common logic would
> largly break if no deamon would be present. That way we'd have lots of
> users complaining why /etc/init.d/asterisk won't startup no daemon.

That would be a bug: Debian policy 9.3.2. mandate that init script
check for the programs being installed.

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

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