New software created for Ubuntu

[David Paleino]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:31:17 -0400, Elliot Murphy wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> wrote:
> > Check this bug, it's the one that triggered my suggestion:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571929
> >
> > It's not (yet) codified by policy but it's widely accepted that circular
> > dependencies are to be avoided. The solution involves moving files around
> > and renaming a package because the name of the package was based on the
> > presence of some specific file in that package.
> 
> I just had a call with various desktopcouch upstream people and we all
> agreed that the circular dependency was a mistake that we overlooked.
> [..]
> We'll be updating the debian bug  report with the plan for solving this and
> hopefully will release a new upstream version enabling this in the next week
> or so.

And it needed a huge thread to reach this? In the meanwhile I already changed
the binary package layout [0] in Debian. Thank you.

[0] please have a look at what I did, before proposing a new plan. So that
we'll are happier.

David

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