Package: grr-server
Version: 3.1.0.2+dfsg-2
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
I'm the current maintainer of prelink in Debian. The tool is pretty
unloved upstream -- Fedora, where I get sources from, has removed it
entirely in Fedora 23, and the latest release tarball isn't even in the
usual place -- so there's a decent chance that prelink will leave Debian
at some point in the next release cycle.
It looks like grr only uses prelink to un-prelink things, and that entire
code is conditional on whether /usr/sbin/prelink exists. If I'm reading
this right, that means there's no need to install prelink on the machines
of people who install grr -- no binaries on their machines will be
prelinked, so there's no need to un-prelink anything. So prelink doesn't
need to be a dependency: grr will do the right thing if it's installed,
but will skip over that code if it's not.
If that's correct, can you remove prelink from your Depends: line
(whenever you next do an upload, no urgency)? That will avoid more people
having prelink installed than necessary, and make it easier to remove
prelink from Debian in the future.
Thanks,
--
Geoffrey Thomas
https://ldpreload.com
geo...@ldpreload.com
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