[pkg-go] Bug#816519: golang-github-google-gopacket-dev: missing Depends/Recommends of external libs

[Robert Haist]

control: tag -1 patch

Hi,

I prepared a patch for this.

Regards,
Robert

On Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:22:43 +0100 Ximin Luo <infinity0 at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: golang-github-google-gopacket-dev
> Version: 1.1.11-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Some of the functionality of this package depends on third-party libraries.
> See https://godoc.org/github.com/google/gopacket e.g.:
>
> * pcap: C bindings to use libpcap to read packets off the wire.
>
> To use this part, one requires libpcap0.8-dev. Other components may require
> other libraries too. Perhaps this library package should Depend: or Recommend:
> some of these packages?
>
> (The reasoning is that, if my project uses this package, *even if my code does
> not directly call libpcap*, I may need it during the build, but this need is due
> to code in this package and not my code.)
>
> libpcap is a bit complex however; upstream does not use stable versions and
> Debian specifically has 0.8. Upstream recommends at least 1.1 but a contact of
> mine confirmed that his package (HoneyBadger, that depends on this package)
> works with the libpcap 0.8 in Debian.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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