Re: Dependencies on libnewt0.52 (was: Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc)

2008-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > BTW, could it be that this comment in pkg-lists/exclude is obsolete? > ># some arches and versions of glibc link against libgcc1, > ># it will be pulled in via library reduction > >libgcc1 - > > > > If I scan all curre

Re: Dependencies on libnewt0.52 (was: Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc)

2008-02-11 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > Don't think that is always true in this case. > Because cdebconf-newt-entropy depends on it and because that is not included > in the initrs (and thus installed later), I think that will pull in the > full library (just as the full glibc udeb is pulled in during anna). libc6-u

Re: Dependencies on libnewt0.52 (was: Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc)

2008-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > Give libnewt0.52 a proper shlibs file changing the dependencies to > 'libnewt-udeb' and add an empty libnewt-udeb package in the newt source > package so that dependencies can be satisfied. Just to make sure that it's archived somewhere, here's a patc

Re: Dependencies on libnewt0.52 (was: Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc)

2008-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 11 February 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > OTOH, just adding the lib in the udeb cannot do any harm I guess, > > except that it could result in the full library getting loaded during > > anna, which would be a waste of memory. I'll look at that option > > though. > > Well,

Re: Dependencies on libnewt0.52 (was: Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc)

2008-02-11 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > OTOH, just adding the lib in the udeb cannot do any harm I guess, except > that it could result in the full library getting loaded during anna, which > would be a waste of memory. I'll look at that option though. Well, that won't happen for most images, since the udeb would be

Re: Dependencies on libnewt0.52

2008-02-11 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: <...> > OTOH, just adding the lib in the udeb cannot do any harm I guess, except > that it could result in the full library getting loaded during anna, which > would be a waste of memory. I'll look at that option though. It makes sense. Even we waste some m

Re: Dependencies on libnewt0.52 (was: Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc)

2008-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 11 February 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Would it be possible to put libnewt.so* in the libnewt-udeb package and > make the library reduction step use it instead of the system library? > I would find such behaviour easier to understand; and we could tailor a > special version of newt clos

Re: Dependencies on libnewt0.52 (was: Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc)

2008-02-11 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
be satisfied. > > Option 2 > > Hack cdebconf-newt-udeb and cdebconf-newt-entropy so that their dependencies > on libnewt0.52 get dropped. > > The first option seems cleaner and therefore has my preference. The first option seems better, indeed, but I still find str

Dependencies on libnewt0.52 (was: Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc)

2008-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
package so that dependencies can be satisfied. Option 2 Hack cdebconf-newt-udeb and cdebconf-newt-entropy so that their dependencies on libnewt0.52 get dropped. The first option seems cleaner and therefore has my preference. The reason I think we should fix this is that we want