Bug#789256: cmus: Pulls in unwanted and potentially dangerous DECnet packages through libroar2

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Sat Jun 20 17:52:32 UTC 2015


Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2015-06-20 12:51:10)
> Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2015-06-20 12:22:09)
> > On 06/20/2015 05:45 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >> Please elaborate what in cmus is "broken by default" - seems this 
> >> whole "issue" of yours stems from installing an additional package 
> >> only _suggested_ by cmus.
> >
> > It's not a Suggests, it's a Recommends:
> >
> > glaubitz at ikarus:~$ apt-cache depends cmus |grep roar
> >   Recommends: libroar2
> > glaubitz at ikarus:~$
> > 
> > and apt is - by default - configured to install Recommends.
> > 
> > Installing cmus on a newly installed system will therefore install 
> > libdnet as a transitive dependency
> 
> Agreed cmus pulls in the _library_ for dnet.

Correction: I agree cmus pulls in the library for _ROAR_.


> > and will result in cmus getting stuck directly after start as I have 
> > reported earlier in the first message in this bug report [1].
> 
> The first message for this bugreport talks about --with-suggests.
> 
> Can you please clarify how cmus causes beakage rather than the use of 
> --with-suggests.

Please do clarify above,

 - Jonas

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