Re: sudo and cracklib

[ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler)]

Joel Klecker wrote:
> At 21:52 +0100 1999-02-10, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
> > I wonder, if sudo really needs to use cracklib, especially as
> > libpam isn't used widely yet in login or similar programs.
> >
> > A solution might be to build two packages: sudo and sudo-cracklib.
> > Or is this cracklib based sudo a move in a new, preferred direction?
> 
> The problem is dpkg-shlibdeps, since it parses ldd output, it ends up 
> pulling in indirect dependencies too (cracklib is a dependency of 
> libpam, not sudo).
> The correct solution is to use the output of objdump 
> --private-headers, this gets only direct dependencies (there is an 
> objdump-based dpkg-shlibdeps in the debian-dpkg list archives).

But this doesn't change the situation. If sudo depends on libpam,
it depends implicitly on cracklib, and I need to install cracklib
in order to configure (and use?) sudo. Or do I miss something?

(and will this objdump-based dpkg-shlibdeps be incorporated into
 mainstream dpkg-dev?)

 Thanks,

  Ulf