Bug#679087: 0ad: Too strong gamin | fam dependency?

Vincent Cheng vincentc1208 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 18:19:40 UTC 2012


tag 679087 + confirmed
thanks

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: 0ad
> Version: 0~r11863-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi!
>
> This package has a dependency on “libgamin0 | libfam0” and at the same
> time another one on “gamin | fam”. libgamin0 already depends on gamin,
> but not fam, and I'm wondering why the strong Depends, instead of say
> a Recommends or a Suggests?
>
> Those daemons are used to track changes on the file system, why would
> that be required to run the program?
>

IIRC, back when I prepared packages for 0ad's alpha 4 release,
dpkg-shlibdeps would automatically add fam as one of 0ad's
dependencies, so I ended up adding gamin as an alternative dependency.
I'm not sure why that happened, nor if it still happens with my
packaging now, but I'll try removing the gamin | fam dependency in my
next upload and see if this is still a problem.

There's work being done upstream to replace 0ad's usage of fam/gamin
with inotify instead [1], so this bug may become a non-issue in a
future release.

Regards,
Vincent

[1] http://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/1316





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