[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#612715: wpasupplicant: Remove dep to libpcsclite1

[Salvo Tomaselli]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.6.10-2.1
Severity: normal

Greetings,

I can't understand why wpasupplicant should depend on a library
to use smart card readers.
If in some very very rare configurations that is used, then it
could be suggested or recommended but since wpasupplicant works
without this library, it should not depend on it.

> The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required for
> the depending package to provide a significant amount of functionality.
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html


Also i think it can be very confusing for non so expert users
to be prompted a question asking to which serial port the reader
is plugged and a selection allowing ttyS* to be chosen, when they have
no smart card reader and no clue what apt is talking about.

Regards

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.8-venere (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-11  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.4.1-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libnl1                        1.1-6      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libpcsclite1                  1.6.6-2    Middleware to access a smart card 
ii  libreadline6                  6.1-3      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8o-4   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-27     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

wpasupplicant recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wpasupplicant suggests:
pn  libengine-pkcs11-openssl      <none>     (no description available)
pn  wpagui                        <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information