[pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#683080: Bug#683080: Bug#683080: Bug#683080: bacula-fd: Please build with libcap-dev

[Elrond]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 15:55:39 +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
[...]
> > In a perfect world it would only add this dependency to
> > bacula-fd.
> > Possibly an upstream wishlist bug?
> 
> IMHO this is not a wishlist bug, we have plenty of such unneeded linking
> in Bacula, see:
> 
>   <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646730#31>

What's about the -Wl,--as-needed?
That should help, I'd guess?


> > That said, libcap2 is on many systems anyway and probably
> > wouldn't hurt on the director or a storage server a lot.
> 
> libcap2 is a dependency for ntp, not essential (standard), but still
> IMHO highly recommended in a backup infrastructure (you want all your
> machines to be synchronized WRT time).  And its Installed-Size: is only
> 55k on sid, so adding it *where it is needed* is not a problem.

ACK.


Cheers

Elrond