Re: [kfreebsd] massive report for uninstallable FUSE packages

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> writes:
> 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.

I'm maintaining the s3ql package and it uses the fusermount command. I
am not sure what you mean with "a FUSE daemon"...?


Best,

   -Nikolaus

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