Re: Bug#736721: Incorrect dependencies

2014-02-06 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
Hi Clint, See http://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html for description of how ctypes works. As Python programs are interpreted, the only way to access external shared libraries from Python code is by dlopen()ing them. By looking at attic code, it only accesses libc (in xattr.py) and libcrypto

Re: Bug#736721: Incorrect dependencies

2014-02-06 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 01:04:09PM +0100, Jonas Borgström wrote: > Attic uses ctypes to interact with libcrypto and does not use > python3-openssl. So the python3-openssl dependency should be replaced > with a dependency on libssl1.0.0. I assume this means this cdll thing is calling dlopen() on li