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

[Ludovic Rousseau]

Le 10/02/11 08:15, Salvo Tomaselli a écrit :
> 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

wpasupplicant is linked against libpcsclite.so.1 so it must Depends: on it.

The best solution would be to change wpasupplicant to only use 
libpcsclite.so.1 if needed or available using a dynamic loading at 
runtime using dlopen().
libpcsclite1 would then just be a Suggests:

If this solution could be pushed upstream that would be great.
I have a patch for that in http://bugs.debian.org/531592

> 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.

libccid also contains a driver for a serial reader. I think I will just 
remove it from the libccid package and then also remove the debconf 
question about the serial port.
Thanks for noticing the problem.

Regards,

-- 
  Dr. Ludovic Rousseau