Package: libpcap0.8-dev Version: 1.8.1-4 Severity: important X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-security-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Dear libpcap maintainer, the fix for Bug#760370 [1] has caused the output of pcap-config --libs to start with a space. This appears to be a problem for applications using the output of that directly with cmake. At least for openvas-libraries (manged by the pkg-security-team I've put in CC), the change results in a FTBFS [2] with cmake reporting: Target "openvas_misc_shared" links to item " -lpcap" which has leading or trailing whitespace. This is now an error according to policy CMP0004. While we can fix this for the openvas-libraries package, this may affect other projects using libpcap and cmake as well. Thanks Lukas [1] https://bugs.debian.org/760370 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/876093