Bug#855623: aprx: please drop libssl-dev / openssl if not needed
No problems here, thanks for that investigation and fix!
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On 26 Sep 2018, at 04:11, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle@coredump.us> wrote:
>> Package: aprx
>> Version: 2.9.0+dfsg-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> The package depends on libssl-dev and openssl but it does not seem to
>> make any use of it. The file ssl.c which uses some of libssl-dev
>> functionality is not compiled as part of the package. Please check if
>> something is missing of if the dependency can be dropped.
>>
>> Sebastian
>
> Greetings, Sebastian.
>
> I'm doing some work on the aprx package to update it and found this bug.
> I just did a build and indeed I don't see SSL being compiled in, however there's
> an option for the 'configure.in' script for --with-openssl[=DIR] (requires
> OpenSSL >= 0.9.7) to optionally include OpenSSL support ... which right now
> seemingly isn't used.
>
> The INSTALL file in the source in section 0) states that the source has no
> prequisites other than standard libc ... but near the end has a list of
> instructions at the end specifies that those compiling for Debian should include
> libssl-dev, but then the call to 'configure' doesn't use the --with-openssl
> option. I don't see anything in the manpage, aprx-manual, or
> aprx-requirement-specification documents that would indicate where SSL could be
> used.
>
> So best I can tell it looks like Build-Depends on libssl-dev and Depends on
> openssl can be removed. at least for this version of the package.
>
> Dave and Colin -- let me know if there's any objections.
> Thanks
>
> -- Chris
>
> --
> Chris Knadle
> Chris.Knadle@coredump.us
>
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