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| Joerg Sommer 2005-07-12, 7:56 am |
| Hi,
I found three packages in my system they name itself in the Depends
field: libbonoboui2-0, libgail-common and libtextwrap1
What's the reason for a package to depend on itself? This makes it hard
for deborphan to detect them as orphaned. Should check lintian on this?
Have a nice day, Jörg.
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| Goswin von Brederlow 2005-07-12, 7:56 am |
| Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> writes:
> Hi,
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> I found three packages in my system they name itself in the Depends
> field: libbonoboui2-0, libgail-common and libtextwrap1
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> What's the reason for a package to depend on itself? This makes it hard
> for deborphan to detect them as orphaned. Should check lintian on this?
>
> Have a nice day, Jörg.
Missing shlibs.local file and binaries in the lib package?
MfG
Goswin
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| Santiago Vila 2005-07-12, 7:56 am |
| On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> writes:
>=20
>=20
> Missing shlibs.local file and binaries in the lib package?
That would be only a "reason" for a build-depends on itself, but not for
a depends on itself.
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| Goswin von Brederlow 2005-07-12, 7:56 am |
| Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
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> That would be only a "reason" for a build-depends on itself, but not for
> a depends on itself.
If the lib itself is also installed then dpkg-shlibs would find the
lib and lookup the shlibs info for the lib. Or not?
MfG
Goswin
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| Frank Lichtenheld 2005-07-12, 5:57 pm |
| On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:22:30AM +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
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> I found three packages in my system they name itself in the Depends
> field: libbonoboui2-0, libgail-common and libtextwrap1
>
> What's the reason for a package to depend on itself? This makes it hard
> for deborphan to detect them as orphaned. Should check lintian on this?
It should and it does...
djpig@djpigpb:/tmp$ lintian libgail-common_1.8.4-1_powerpc.deb
W: libgail-common: package-relation-with-self depends: libgail-common (>= 1.6.6)
Gruesse,
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| Santiago Vila 2005-07-12, 5:57 pm |
| On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
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> If the lib itself is also installed then dpkg-shlibs would find the
> lib and lookup the shlibs info for the lib. Or not?
Ah, yes, I suppose. I was using the word "reason" as "justification",
not as "cause".
In either case, a package which depends on itself is almost surely a bug,
I would certainly welcome a lintian warning for that.
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