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Re: support for merged /usr in Debian



Simon McVittie wrote:
> 0m24.5s DEBUG: Starting command: ['adequate', '--root',
> '/srv/piuparts.debian.org/tmp/tmpk5ZNdX', 'iputils-ping']
> 0m24.6s DUMP:
>   iputils-ping: bin-or-sbin-binary-requires-usr-lib-library /bin/ping6
> => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls-openssl.so.27
> 
> I don't know why a ping implementation wants to do SSL, but let's assume
> that's a useful thing to do for some reason. Are you saying that GNUTLS
> and all its dependencies should move from /usr to /?

Looks like it's not actually SSL that ping6 wants to do, but MD5, due to
the support for "ICMPv6 Node Information Queries (RFC4620)":

    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4620#section-5

    [...] Compute the MD5 hash [...]

If it really does need to do MD5, maybe it could use the one in libbsd0
instead of dragging in libgnutls-openssl27 and its dependencies.

-- 
Robert Edmonds
edmonds@debian.org


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