On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 20:01:16 +0100 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > Source: libarchive > Source-Version: 3.4.0-2 > Severity: important > User: a...@packages.debian.org > Usertags: libattr-drop-attr-xattr-header > > Hi! > > This package uses the deprecated <attr/xattr.h> header (from libattr) > instead of the one provided now by glibc <sys/xattr.h>. > > The former header has been removed in upstream libattr, but got > reintroduced in Debian to avoid breakage just before the Debian buster > freeze. But I'd like to be able to remove it in Debian too, so that > the interface can be synced with upstream. > > It looks like this is the only header used by this package from libattr, > so you should be able to drop the dependency on libattr entirely, as > glibc should be providing all that is needed now. > > Thanks, > Guillem > >
Triaging into this bug, it seems that libarchive has already support for using sys/xattr.h; at least it looks for the both paths in its CMakeLists.txt However, it pulls in libattr1-dev via libacl1-dev. So it looks libattr1-dev can be removed, but libacl1-dev needs fixing (not checked) In the hope this helps solvong this bug, tobi
