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and subject line [Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Bug#399161: pciutils dependency on
libpci2
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Package: pciutils
Version: 1:2.2.4~pre4-1
This Package claims to depend on package libpci2. The executables it
contains are
/usr/bin/lspci
/usr/bin/setpci
/usr/bin/update-pciids
/usr/bin/pcimodules
But none of them show a dependency on libpci2, when inspected with ldd.
So why the dependency on libpci2?
Best regards,
Jörg-Volker.
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Matt Taggart wrote:
> The dependency is needed while we transition from having libpci as a shared
> library to as an archive library. There may be packages that have a
> dependency
> on pciutils because of a need for the shared library. In the long term those
> applications should switch to building statically, in the short term they can
> depend on the new libpci2 package directly. But until all applications have
> moved to doing one of those two things, we have created the dependency you
> mention so that things will keep working. We have to keep in mind not only
> packages in Debian, but end user and 3rd party software as well.
>
> Post etch and once all the packages in Debian have transitioned we will drop
> the dependency and any end user or third party stuff still relying on that
> will break and need to be updated.
>
> OK?
>
Yes, I agree. I have to admit, that I missed to take a look at the
packages in sarge. And I omitted to say that I'm using the testing
distribution. Thank you for your explanations.
I'll close this bug.
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