Re: Bug#983317: kcoreaddons: The libfam-dev build dependency should be [!linux-any]

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:01:14AM +0100, Aurélien COUDERC wrote:
> Le lundi 22 février 2021, 12:30:46 CET Adrian Bunk a écrit :
> > Source: kcoreaddons
> > Version: 5.78.0-2
> > Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Adrian,
> 
> > Unless I am misreading the code, the HAVE_FAM code is only
> > used as a fallback when inotify is not available.
> 
> CMakeLists says the following :
>     PURPOSE "Provides file alteration notification facilities using a separate 
> service. FAM provides additional support for NFS.")
> 
> I’ve not checked and am no specialist but is it not a valid fallback use case 
> for it ?

Thanks for pointing out what I missed.

cu
Adrian