reassign 464113 wpasupplicant
retitle remove libpcsclite1 package dependency
thank
Sven, I have no news since one week. I forgot to say but you can also
safely remove the pcscd package.
I now reassign the bug to wpasupplicant.
wpasupplicant maintainer, feel free to close the bug if you think it is
not possible to dynamically load libcsclite1.so at execution time only
if/when needed.
Bye,
Ludovic Rousseau a écrit :
Sven Joachim a écrit :
Package: libpcsclite1
Version: 1.4.99-1
Severity: normal
The latest version of wpasupplicant¹ depends on libpcsclite1, thus your
package will be automatically installed on many systems that don't have
a smartcard reader. Therefore I think it should not recommend the pcscd
daemon any more.
libpcsclite1 can't be used without pcscd. libpcsclite1 is the client and
pcscd is the server.
It is safe to have pcscd installed even if you do not have a smart card
reader. It will just consume some disk space, ram space and CPU.
You can always remove pcscd if you want.
I also note that wpasupplicant Suggests: pcscd and that should not be
needed.
I do not intend to change the Recommends: into a Suggests: for
libpcsclite1.
If you are really annoyed by the fact that installing wpasupplicant will
install smart card packages the easiest solution is that wpasupplicant
does a load of libpcsclite.so.1 at runtime instead of link time. So
wpasupplicant can be installed without libpcsclite1.
What do you think?
bye
--
Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
