Am 10.09.24 um 14:52 schrieb Fabian Grünbichler: >> Fiona Ebner <f.eb...@proxmox.com> hat am 10.09.2024 14:24 CEST geschrieben: >> Am 12.08.24 um 13:44 schrieb Maximiliano Sandoval: >>> The decompressor_info method calls binaries provided by these packages >>> so they are (alphabetically) added explicitly as dependencies. >>> >>> To avoid a build-time error >>> >>> E: libpve-storage-perl: >>> depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version Depends: gzip >>> >>> the current minor version available in bullseye was set for gzip. >>> >> >> Since I didn't get that error, I'm interested: what command are you >> building with? Why the version for Bullseye? > > it's wrong in any case - gzip is Essential (installed on all Debian systems). > you don't ever need a dependency (build or otherwise) for it. this is what > lintian is trying to tell you - it's wrong to depend on gzip without a > version constraint (and okay to use it without a dependency). *only* if you > have a certain version requirement you need to add the dependency (with the > proper version qualifier) to be able to encode that version requirement. >
I see, thank you for the explanation! >> I guess many systems already have bzip2 installed, but do we really want >> to require it for everybody? Or should we rather keep it optional (could >> be a Recommends or Suggests dependency) and add a clean error if not >> installed? > > I am not sure about *how* many (most dev machines yes, since it's > build-essential and required by a lot of build-related packages ;)). it's > only 124kB though, and libbz2-1.0 is always installed (it's transitively > Essential via dpkg), so it doesn't pull in anything that isn't installed on > all standard Debian-based systems anyway since it only depends on that and > libc6. I don't really see a reason to use Recommends or Suggests here, even > if bz2 compress isos are not that common. Okay :) _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
