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

[Kel Modderman]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:56:09 AM Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> 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().

And that was a decision I was never comfortable with and have now reverted
to the previous status quo.

> 
> > 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.

Nah it's not, the dlopen() experiment wasn't correct for all archs and I'm
convinced now that it was the wrong solution to a problem.

Kel.