hi steve, On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 08:49:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > The mnemosyne package in unstable has a hard-coded dependency on libicu52. > The icu library is in the midst of an soname change, and now provides > libicu55 instead of libicu52. > > The last time icu had an soname change, pochu raised the point that this > dependency should probably be dropped (bug #732005). You didn't give any > explanation on that bug why the dependency should be there, but just revved > the dependency to the new soname. I've grepped through the mnemosyne > source, and there are no references anywhere to any files contained in the > libicu package. The fact that you changed the dependency without making any > changes to the source is further evidence that the dependency is unused. > Please drop the unneeded dependency, as in the attached (trivial) patch.
yeah, I remember that! The concern back then was some python module that loads libicu when present, and behaves differently when not. Something about filenames within the card data and actual filenames on the system. I had a good poke around but can't find anything to that effect, and tried two combinations in cards. I am off to bed, but will do more experimentation the next few days. If I can't reproduce the issue, I'll just drop the dependency, I may have been imagining things. If anyone wants to have a play as well: http://www.semistable.com/files/ regards robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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