[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#612715: wpasupplicant: Remove dep to libpcsclite1
Salvo Tomaselli
tiposchi at tiscali.it
Thu Feb 10 07:15:06 UTC 2011
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
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