Bug#893934: openssh-client: Potentially unintended dependency on libbsd
Control: reassign -1 libedit-dev 3.1-20170329-1
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 02:37:57AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I just noticed that the latest version of this package depends on
> libbsd0, which at first thought it was nice given my previous bug
> request :), but then realized it was probably unintended when I
> checked the actual sources. Here's the reasons why:
>
> * Build-Depends on libedit-dev, which pulls in libbsd-dev.
> * configure.ac uses AC_CHECK_LIB instead of AC_SEARCH_LIBS to
> check for daemon(), which detects daemon() from glibc and
> concludes that libsd is needed.
Nope. The check you mention is in the false branch of an
AC_CHECK_FUNC([daemon], ...), so isn't run because we detect glibc's
version first.
The actual reason is:
$ pkg-config --libs libedit
-ledit -lncurses -lbsd
Maybe -lbsd should be moved to Libs.private? But I don't know the
libedit interface in detail, and in any case this is up to the libedit
maintainers, so reassigning.
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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