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

[Sven Joachim]

On 2011-02-10 08:15 +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:

> 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.

For those who don't understand this sentence, libpcsclite1 in sid now
depends on pcscd (which in turn depends on the not-so-welcome hal).
This is the real problem IMO; I don't care about small library packages
as long as they don't drag in random daemons.

Regards,
        Sven