Package: genometools-common Version: 1.6.1+ds-3 Severity: normal Hello,
I am a package maintainer of GNU Pth, (non-preemptive) Portable Threads library. GNU Pth in Debian: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pth It's an old package. It used to be used by GnuPG 2.0. These days, mostly no software uses GNU Pth. I checked users of GNU Pth in Debian and found that genometools-common depends on libpth20. However, I can't see any use of Pth in the software. The dependency is manually specified at: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/genometools/-/blob/master/debian/control#L63 IIUC, this is not needed (and wrong). I think that no users need libpth20 for genometools. Could you please remove this dependency, if I am not wrong? Please note that Pthreads (in the manual pthreads(7)) is full featured preemptive threads library (comes with libc), which is different from GNU Pth. If non-preemptive threads library is needed, I suggest use of Npth library, as GnuPG 2.2 does. npth in Debian: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/npth --