[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#1122889: indi-nightscape: hardcoded dependency on deprecated libftdi (but unused)

[Aurelien Jarno]

Hi,

On 2025-12-13 20:51, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Package: indi-nightscape
> Version: 1.0.6+20221222181314-3
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> indi-nightscape uses the src:libftdi1 library, it build-depends on
> libftdi1-dev, and the resulting binary depends on libftdi1-2.
> 
> However, the resulting binary also has an hardcoded dependency on
> libftdi1 (from src:libftdi) which is unused. This library is deprecated
> and will be removed. Please therefore remove this hardcoded dependency,
> which is basically:
> 
> --- indi-nightscape-1.0.6+20221222181314/debian/control
> +++ indi-nightscape-1.0.6+20221222181314/debian/control
> @@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
>  Package: indi-nightscape
>  Architecture: any
>  Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
> -	, libftdi1
>  Description: INDI driver for Celestron Nightscape 8300
>   This package contains the INDI driver for the Celestron Nightscape 8300
>   line of CCDs.

indi-nightscape is one of the two last packages still using the old 
libftdi and the last one still in testing. Therefore would it be 
possible to schedule an upload with this fix?

Thanks
Aurelien

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