Re: [kfreebsd] massive report for uninstallable FUSE packages
2011/7/16 Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 04:10:18PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> There are 23 packages in unstable which can't be installed on Debian
>> GNU/kFreeBSD because of their unconditional dependency on fuse-utils.
>> On this platform, fuse4bsd should be used instead.
>>
>> I indent to file one bug report for each of them:
>>
>> wikipediafs sshfs smbnetfs s3ql rofs python-fuse pytagsfs plptools
>> mythtvfs ntfsprogs libpam-mount libfuse-perl libconfig-model-perl
>> httpfs2 gphotofs gfarm2fs fusedav fts flickrfs curlftpfs bindfs avfs
>> aptfs
>>
>> using the following template:
>>
>> <template>
>> Package: %package%
>> Severity: important
>> User: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
>> Usertags: kfreebsd
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> This package is not installable on kfreebsd-i386 or kfreebsd-amd64 because it
>> depends unconditionally on fuse-utils. Please considering adjusting the
>> dependency from:
>>
>> Depends: fuse-utils
>>
>> to:
>>
>> Depends: fuse-utils [linux-any] | fuse4bsd [kfreebsd-any]
>>
>> If it requires fuse-utils specifically because of the command-line functionality
>> in that package (and not just to obtain a FUSE daemon), please reply to this
>> bug report so we can try to find a solution.
>
> IIRC, that's actually a requirement of libfuse itself, not directly from the
> packages using libfuse. So why shouldn't that be libfuse's job to depend
> on these? For the very few rdeps that *don't* rely on the API that uses
> them?
That would make sense to me, but libfuse2 only Suggests fuse-utils.
CCing the maintainer. Daniel, are all these dependencies gratuitous?
Should they be removed instead of adjusted to support fuse4bsd?
--
Robert Millan
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