On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:13 PM Sanford Rockowitz wrote: > What's unusual is that the command line version does not depend on the > shared library. Both versions are built from the same source package ... > Is this design just atypical, or does it violate Debian practice in some > way?
It is hard to say without reviewing a lot libraries, but think the practices of different upstreams vary widely, some tools solely wrap shared libraries, some have an additional "private" shared library, some use your approach. I don't think it violates any Debian practice that I can think of. One downside in the case of ddcutil is that the command-line tools will have a different set of capabilities to any tools built on the shared library (GUIs etc). BTW, are you aware of any effort to support DDC in the Linux kernel? It would be useful to be able to control monitor brightness etc from standard graphical interfaces that can currently only control laptop screen brightness. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
