[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#612842: Please make dependendency on libpcsclite1 optional

[Ludovic Rousseau]

Le 07/03/11 11:52, Kel Modderman a écrit :
> Hi Ludovic Rousseau,
>
> On Sunday 13 February 2011 18:25:58 Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
>> 2011/2/13 Michael Biebl<biebl at debian.org>:
>>> On 11.02.2011 21:43, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
>>>> reassign 612842 wpasupplicant
>>>> thank
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hm, I don't see how libpcsclite1 depending on pcscd is a bug in wpasupplicant.
>>> Could you elaborate?
>>
>> wpasupplicant depends on libpcsclite1 to add support of smart cards.
>> libpcsclite1 has dependencies on other packages, in particular
>> indirectly on libhal.
>>
>> Adding smart card support has a (high) cost for every body, including
>> the vast majority of wpasupplicant users with no smart card.
>>
>> The best solution is for spasupplicant to use the libpcsclite1 library
>> only when needed/requested by the user.
>> Use dlopen() instead of a direct link, and change the Depends: to a
>> Suggests: instead.
>>
>> I proposed a patch [1] in Debian bug #531592
>
> Can you please take a look at attached patch? Tweaked it in preparation for
> sending upstream.

Looks good to me.
I do not use wpasupplicant myself so I can't test the patch does work 
correctly.

Please submit upstream.

Thanks

-- 
  Dr. Ludovic Rousseau