Package: barcode
Version: 0.99-3
Severity: important
Control: affects -1 glabels
That's basically #914851 but I decided to open a new bug rather than
unarchive the old one. glabels has been binNMUed recently for the EDS
transition and it no longer provides GNU Barcode support; from its
build log:
| checking for Barcode_Create in -lbarcode... no
I realize this is an upstream decision and I tried to write to
bug-barc...@gnu.org (see below) but my message bounced despite me being
a list subscriber.
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Older releases of GNU Barcode included a static library libbarcode.a
and barcode.h which used to be installed in $includedir. That's no
longer true with the current release (0.99) which unfortunately breaks
software as gLabels which uses the GNU Barcode library. Some users
(like me) rely on this precise feature.
What was the rationale for removing it? Is there a chance to ship the
library again with the next release, perhaps as a proper shared
library if the API is considered stable?
I can try to provide a patch if that's all that is needed.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500,
'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, x32
Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages barcode depends on:
ii install-info 6.7.0.dfsg.2-3+b1
ii libc6 2.29-2
ii libpaper1 1.1.28+b1
barcode recommends no packages.
Versions of packages barcode suggests:
ii info 6.7.0.dfsg.2-3+b1
-- no debconf information
