Package: libpcsclite1 Version: 1.7.0-1 Severity: normal Hi,
A Recommends means "would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations". For example, aiccu Recommends ntpdate | ntp | time-daemon because while typically one of those packages is needed for an accurate clock, it is possible the timesource is accurate by some other means (e.g., we are running in a vm, the host is running ntp, and the guest kernel is taking care to keep the clock accurate). Similarly, the X server used to Recommends a font server because it's possible you have a font server running on another machine. That criterion is not satisfied in the case of libpcsclite1. It is a dependency of wpasupplicant, and _many_ wpasupplicant installations do not have smart cards. There is nothing unusual about not needing pcscd. Could you figure out some other way to advertise how to get smartcard support set up (maybe adding pcscd to the desktop task?) and lower this dependency to a Suggests? Another possibility is that pcscd is actually needed for libpcsclite1 to perform as advertised. In that case, the dependency of wpasupplicant on it would be a bug, and the lack of a lighter-weight library that can deal with configurations with and without pcscd would be a bug. "What is the impact?" you might wonder. Most high-level package managers install Recommends by default unless you turn off the Recommends facility completely. This is not a bug in the package managers; that's how it's supposed to work. Thoughts welcome as always. Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
