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regarding pnet-assemblies: Shared library dependencies determined wrongly
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Package: pnet-assemblies
Version: 0.7.4-1
Severity: serious
There seems to be a fundamental problem in the way this package
determines some shared library dependencies:
1. The configure script checks the SONAMEs of the installed versions of
various libraries and records these in pinvoke.map. (If a library has
missing or has no SONAME, nothing is recorded.)
2. The code that uses these libraries has private copies of their
function declarations translated into C#.
3. At run-time the libraries are called through the P/Invoke mechanism,
which I assume uses pinvoke.map to determine the appropriate filename
and then calls dlopen and dlsym.
There are several problems with this:
A. The SONAMEs in pinvoke.map need to match those for the versions from
which the declarations are taken and translated to C#, but I don't see
any mechanism for making this happen.
B. The configure script checks large numbers of libraries that do not
appear to be used by this package, resulting in many apparently
meaningless SONAME mappings.
C. These shared library dependencies are invisible to dpkg-shlibdeps, so
they aren't included in the binary package's dependencies.
Based on a grep of the source, I believe the following libraries are
used through the P/Invoke mechanism: libICE, libgnutls, libjpeg, libssl.
I think the source package should use a static pinvoke.map that contains
SONAME mappings for these libraries that match the C# declarations and
is then included in the binary. The binary package should include
corresponding package dependencies; it may be possible to automate
generation of these from pinvoke.map.
Ben.
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Version: 0.7.4-1+rm
The pnet-assemblies package has been removed from Debian testing, unstable and
experimental, so I am now closing the bugs that were still opened
against it.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/453457 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
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