[Parted-maintainers] Bug#526896: Missing / broken dependency on uuid-dev/libdevmapper-dev

[Michael Biebl]

Package: libparted1.8-dev
Version: 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1
Severity: important

Hi,

libparted.la declares a dependency on uuid and devmapper:
dependency_libs=' -ldl -ldevmapper -luuid'

Yet the package is missing the required Depends.
A package that uses libtool to links against libparted will thus fail to
build if uuid-dev and libdevmapper-dev are not installed.

On the other hand, /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libparted.pc does not list uuid
and devmapper as dependency. So either the pkg-config file is incorrect
or the libtool dependencies were added errorneously.

Either way, this should be fixed (by either stripping -ldevmapper -luuid from
libparted.la or removing libparted.la, or by declaring the missing
Depends).

Cheers,
Michael


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Versions of packages libparted1.8-dev depends on:
ii  libc6-dev      2.9-9                     GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii  libparted1.8-1 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s

libparted1.8-dev recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libparted1.8-dev suggests:
ii  parted         1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1 The GNU Parted disk partition resi
pn  parted-doc     <none>                    (no description available)

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