On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 08:07:14PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Package: libsnapper4 [...] > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsnapper.so.4.1.0 contains chattr. According to > file it is a ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux) [...]
The ext4 specific module indeed uses chattr, but not before it checks if the program is available and throws an exception if not. The only thing it does before that is the same check for 'chsnap' command, which isn't even available in Debian archive. Google told me "chsnap is only ever used if your root is ext4", so presumably libsnapper is commonly used with other filesystem types atleast in Debian. My conclusion is that either this package is completely fubar or there's likely no need for a dependency. (Possibly a suggests or so could still be useful though.) Would be great to hear from maintainers what's going on here... Regards, Andreas Henriksson
