> Fiona Ebner <f.eb...@proxmox.com> hat am 10.09.2024 14:24 CEST geschrieben: > Am 12.08.24 um 13:44 schrieb Maximiliano Sandoval: > > The decompressor_info method calls binaries provided by these packages > > so they are (alphabetically) added explicitly as dependencies. > > > > To avoid a build-time error > > > > E: libpve-storage-perl: > > depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version Depends: gzip > > > > the current minor version available in bullseye was set for gzip. > > > > Since I didn't get that error, I'm interested: what command are you > building with? Why the version for Bullseye?
it's wrong in any case - gzip is Essential (installed on all Debian systems). you don't ever need a dependency (build or otherwise) for it. this is what lintian is trying to tell you - it's wrong to depend on gzip without a version constraint (and okay to use it without a dependency). *only* if you have a certain version requirement you need to add the dependency (with the proper version qualifier) to be able to encode that version requirement. > I guess many systems already have bzip2 installed, but do we really want > to require it for everybody? Or should we rather keep it optional (could > be a Recommends or Suggests dependency) and add a clean error if not > installed? I am not sure about *how* many (most dev machines yes, since it's build-essential and required by a lot of build-related packages ;)). it's only 124kB though, and libbz2-1.0 is always installed (it's transitively Essential via dpkg), so it doesn't pull in anything that isn't installed on all standard Debian-based systems anyway since it only depends on that and libc6. I don't really see a reason to use Recommends or Suggests here, even if bz2 compress isos are not that common. _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
