On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 10:07 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Sat 16 Apr 2011 09:52:22 +0200, a écrit : > > I took a quick look at libnl (1.1-6) since it had a lot of reverse > > dependencies, both build and binary. However, most of the include files > > refer to linux/*.h. Any chance to ever get that package ported? > > libnl means netlink, which is a linux-specific thing. > > We could implement the interface, but applications using it will only > assume linux-specific interfaces behind (bluetooth, quota, hostap, > wireless), so they will just not work. It's probably better to disable > the libnl dependency in the corresponding packages (if they can > still build after that). When doing so, propose [linux-any], not > [!hurd-i386], since kfreebsd has the same issue. Notably, openscap > already has the libnl-dev [!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64], simply > requeset [linux-any] instead.
Wouldn't it be easier to create a dummy package, hosted at debian-ports, providing the interface to solve the dependency problems? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
