Recursive entries in package-index.LATEST
While parsing the package-index file to build a nice tree of who requires
who, I found that some of the entries contain themselves. For example:
(package-get-update-base-entry (quote
(gnus
--^^^^
(standards-version 1.1
version "1.55"
author-version "5.8.8"
date "2001-02-14"
build-date "2001-02-18"
maintainer "XEmacs Development Team <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org>"
distribution xemacs
priority medium
category "comm"
dump nil
description "The Gnus Newsreader and Mailreader."
filename "gnus-1.55-pkg.tar.gz"
md5sum "926b8cb1b770bf367d260f7b1f33b017"
size 2353348
provides (gnus message)
requires (gnus w3 mh-e mailcrypt rmail eterm mail-lib
--------------^^^^
xemacs-base fsf-compat)
type regular
))
))
Is there a reason for this, or is it an accident?
-Jim