[Pkg-pdns-maintainers] Bug#701798: pdns-server package depends on libsqlite3-0 for no practical reason

[Peter van Dijk]

The bindbackend, which is part of pdns-server 3.1, uses sqlite3 for key storage.

On Feb 27, 2013, at 10:16 , Nikolay Shaplov wrote:

> Package: pdns-server
> Version: 3.1-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> pnds-server package depends on libsqlite3-0 for no practical reason.
> 
> If I manually remove gsqlite3 backend from building and packaging, and uninstall libsqlite3-dev
> and try to build pdns package manually, pdns-sever and all other backends builds successfully and 
> all packages creates properly. And in this case pdsn-server does not depends on libsqlite3-0. 
> So it is not source code, it might be some building options or something...
> 
> It it not a very good idea to bring libsqlite3-0 on servers where it is not really used...
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0.7
>  APT prefers stable-updates
>  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages pdns-server depends on:
> ii  adduser                 3.112+nmu2       add and remove users and groups
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.36.1         Debian configuration management sy
> ii  libboost-program-option 1.42.0-4         program options library for C++
> ii  libboost-serialization1 1.42.0-4         serialization library for C++
> ii  libc6                   2.11.3-4         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
> ii  libcrypto++8            5.6.0-6          General purpose cryptographic libr
> ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.5-8        GCC support library
> ii  liblua5.1-0             5.1.4-5          Simple, extensible, embeddable pro
> ii  libsqlite3-0            3.7.3-1          SQLite 3 shared library
> ii  libstdc++6              4.4.5-8          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii  ucf                     3.0025+nmu1      Update Configuration File: preserv
> ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
> 
> pdns-server recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages pdns-server suggests:
> ii  pdns-backend-pgsql [pdns-back 3.1-4      generic PostgreSQL backend for Pow
> pn  pdns-recursor                 <none>     (no description available)
> 
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind'
> 
> -- debconf information:
> * pdns-server/localaddress: 0.0.0.0
> * pdns-server/allowrecursion: 127.0.0.1
> * pdns-server/autostart: true
> 

Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - http://www.netherlabs.nl/