Bug#405239: libgnutls13: gnutls13 has an unnecessary dependency on libgpg-error

[Simon Josefsson]

Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 06:27:59PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> writes:
>> 
>> > reassign 405239 libgnutls26
>> > thanks
>> >
>> > The bug was marked as blocking on the libtool bug #419228,
>> 
>> Ah, right.
>> 
>> > which looks to be correct.
>> 
>> No, that bug is about convenience libraries, and GnuTLS has changed and
>> no longer links convenience libraries with libgcrypt.
>> 
>> I believe this is the situation:
>> 
>> gnutls13's link problem was caused by linking a convenience library to
>> libgcrypt.  We don't ship libgnutls13 any more, so I don't think we
>> should spend time on fixing whatever problem it may or may not have had.
>> 
>> gnutls26's link problem is not caused by a convenience library.  It is
>> caused by direct linking, and I tried to provide a self-contained
>> explanation in
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405239#39
>
> Is that with a Debian version of libtool, or with the upstream
> version?  Did you try with the current version in
> testing/unstable?  The Debian version has been patched for a long
> time not to add that depedency, except in that case of convience
> libraries.

Oops!  This is indeed with upstream version.

I couldn't use debian's libtool because the *.tar.gz archives generated
if I use it weren't working on some systems (although I cannot recall
the concrete error, but I think it was related to the problem we discuss
here).

I'll try to resolve this with upstream libtool people, sorry for the
noise!

/Simon