[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#644823: Bug#644823: uninstallable on kfreebsd-* (depends on uninstallable libpcap0.8 from non-udeb land)

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi

On Thursday 13 October 2011, Robert Millan wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant-udeb
> Version: 0.7.3-4
> Severity: grave
> Tags: d-i
> 
> $ LANG=C fakeroot make build_monolithic
> [...]
>   wpasupplicant-udeb:kfreebsd-i386 Depends on libpcap0.8 [ kfreebsd-i386 ] < none > ( none ) can't be satisfied!
> [...]
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  wpasupplicant-udeb : Depends: libpcap0.8 but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Does this affect daily d-i builds or is it 'just' wpasupplicant-udeb 
(new package) being unusable without affecting the kfreebsd ports yet?

While being RC in either case, the later part would allow checking with
libpcap maintainers if they would provide an udeb we could depend on, 
instead of having to make wpasupplicant linux-any/ immediately and 
asking ftp-master to remove the current binaries to unbreak d-i for 
kfreebsd?

So as far as I understand it, we have two options:
- asking libpcap maintainers to add an udeb for wpasupplicant-udeb to 
  use
or
- disabling to build wpasupplicant-udeb on kfreebsd-any (making it 
  linux-any) and to remove the 0.7.3-4 binaries from the archive, as
  long as there is not libpcap udeb.

Which of these options would you, as the kfreebsd porters, prefer to 
pursue for now?

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann