[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#612842: Bug#612971: Bug#612842: Please make dependendency on libpcsclite1 optional

[Ludovic Rousseau]

2011/4/10 Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org>:
> Regardless of wpasupplicant fixing this by dropping the dependency, I
> disagree this is not a problem with libpcsclite. While for libpcsclite
> pcscd might be required, it might not for the programs using it, or for
> users w/o a smart card, and forcing a Depends seems too much, when a
> Recommends would work for everyone. It would get installed by default,
> and users could have the option to opt-out and remove it if desired.

Exact. The package is already fixed that way.

>> The best solution is for spasupplicant to use the libpcsclite1 library
>> only when needed/requested by the user.
>> Use dlopen() instead of a direct link, and change the Depends: to a
>> Suggests: instead.
>>
>> I proposed a patch [1] in Debian bug #531592
>
> Using dlopen() for shared objects not being part of ones project is
> just broken, please don't do or advocate that. It will cause numerous
> pains on transitions as the packages cannot (usually) just be binNMUed
> for it to pickup the new SONAME, and even if it can and any weak package
> metadata gets also updated, users will not have a clue what they are
> missing if it stops working, as it breaks partial upgrades and similar.

wpasupplicant version 0.7.3-1 available in experimental now does use dlopen().

> So I'd kindly ask that this gets switched as to a Recommends, regardless
> of any future switch to libudev (I don't really want the daemon even if
> it's not using hal and friends).

I changed the dependency from Depends: to Recommends: in version
1.7.0-1 (09 Mar 2011) now also available in testing.

This bug is already fixed.

Regards,

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau