intra-source-package-circular-dependency

The listed packages from the same source circularly depend (or pre-depend) on each other. This makes it difficult for tools to properly handle install/upgrade sequences. Furthermore this complicates automated removal of unused packages.

If possible, consider removing or reducing one of the depends.

Note: This check is limited to packages created from the same source package. Full circular dependencies between binaries from different source packages is beyond the scope of Lintian.

For more information please consult:

Debian Policy Manual section 7.2

The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163. That is the most recent version we know about.

We use semantic versions. The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the 2.111.0 release tag in our Git repository.

You can find the detection logic for this version at commit ce6249d. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check group-checks.

Visibility: warning

The following 12 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 15 times (in any Lintian version).

We found 4 overrides. The tag performed 73% of the time.

cups

- # libcups2-dev's ppd.h depends on raster.h; libcupsimage2-dev's raster.h depends on cups.h
libcups2-dev libcupsimage2-dev

- # This cycle cannot be removed. libeio1 depends on libefreet1a, and libefreet1a requires libefreet-bin. Since libefreet1a is MA: same and libefreet-bin is MA: foreign, they cannot be combined. The libeio1 Depends on libefreet-bin is new to 1.25. But I don't know why it wasn't generated before - the libefreet1a symbols file has required it since db5f4e3ecd2. Upstream is working on merging most EFL shared objects. At that point, this will be eliminated.
libefreet-bin libeio1

gamin

gamin libgamin0

gnuift

gnuift gnuift-perl

lvm2

dmeventd liblvm2cmd2.03
dmsetup libdevmapper1.02.1

libmlt++7 libmlt7

mono

libmono-security4.0-cil libmono-system-configuration4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-system-security4.0-cil libmono-system-xml4.0-cil libmono-system4.0-cil
libmono-system-design4.0-cil libmono-system-web-services4.0-cil libmono-system-web4.0-cil
libmono-system-servicemodel-activation4.0-cil libmono-system-servicemodel4.0a-cil

mono-debugger-libs

libmono-debugger-soft-cil libmono-debugging-soft-cil

nrefactory

libicsharpcode-nrefactory-cecil5.0-cil libicsharpcode-nrefactory5.0-cil

ros-geometry2

libtf2-dev libtf2-geometry-msgs-dev

symfony

php-symfony-amqp-messenger php-symfony-doctrine-messenger php-symfony-messenger php-symfony-redis-messenger

tasksel

- # See #413250
tasksel tasksel-data

# This cycle cannot be removed. libeio1 depends on libefreet1a, and libefreet1a requires libefreet-bin. Since libefreet1a is MA: same and libefreet-bin is MA: foreign, they cannot be combined. The libeio1 Depends on libefreet-bin is new to 1.25. But I don't know why it wasn't generated before - the libefreet1a symbols file has required it since db5f4e3ecd2. Upstream is working on merging most EFL shared objects. At that point, this will be eliminated.