retitle 662718 cpio: Suggests libarchive1, which is gone due to SONAME bump severity 662718 normal thanks
Yes. This was pretty perplexing. There is no mention of libarchive in the Description: field, there *is* no README.Debian, and none of the binaries are linked with libarchive1, so how could it be used? Still, I was reluctant to uninstall libarchive1 without a new version of cpio that suggested libarchive12, though I eventually gave up on that and just removed it. Then, a couple days after, when I finally got around to actually looking through the cpio bug list that I'd previously opened (i.e., just now), and was re-checking things to ensure accuracy in my contribution to this bug thread, I thought to check the changelogs for cpio and libarchive for clues to why it libarchive1 was suggested, and I found this: ,---- | libarchive (1.02.036-1) unstable; urgency=low | | * New upstream version, now with support for building as a .so. | * Added build-dep on libattr1-dev. | * No more libarchive-doc; its files now live in libarchive1. | * Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for ideas for this package. `---- In particular, note the third bullet. Based on this, it is my guess that the Suggests: was intended to refer to the documentation. Now, you may be thinking "What? Docs in a shared-library package?!?!?"; if so, you'd be right: poking around with apt-file reveals that they're now included in the libarchive-dev package. These three documents appear particularly applicable: ,---- | libarchive-dev: /usr/share/man/man5/cpio.5.gz | libarchive-dev: /usr/share/man/man5/libarchive-formats.5.gz | libarchive-dev: /usr/share/man/man5/mtree.5.gz | libarchive-dev: /usr/share/man/man5/tar.5.gz `---- So, if I'm correct about the reason for the Suggests:, it looks like it should be changed to "Suggests: libarchive-dev", and a note about the reason added to the Description: field and/or README.Debian (so that no one has to puzzle it out again). Thanks, - Samuel Bronson -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
