Re: Bug#93684: pdftex is linked against libjpeg, but it is not Depended against

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On 12 Apr 2001, James Troup wrote:

> severity 93684 fixed
> thanks
>
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:
>
> > This seems to be a bug in objdump that doesn't show all dependencies of
> > pdftex (dpkg in unstable/testing uses "objdump" instead of "ldd"):
>
> That's not a bug, it's a feature.  pdftex doesn't actually use
> libjpeg, it's being pulled in by libtiff.  Avoiding these kind of
> false dependencies is exactly why dpkg-shlibdeps was changed to use
> objdump and not ldd.
>
> This bug should be closed by someone, anyone.  tetex-bin depends on
> libtiff3g which in turn depends on libjpeg62, so all is well and right
> in the world.


Thanks for the explanation! I didn't know before this difference between
ldd and objdump.


cu
Adrian

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