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# `circular-installation-prerequisite`

The installable declares itself as its own installation prerequisite in the relevant `debian/control` stanza.

Current versions of `dpkg-gencontrol` will silently ignore the prerequisite, but it may still indicate an oversight. It could be a misspelling or having cut and pasted an incorrect package name.

Severity: | `warning`
Experimental: | `false`
Renamed from: | `package-depends-on-itself`

## See also

- Binary Dependencies - Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Enhances, Pre-Depends (Section 7.2) in the Debian Policy Manual

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag