[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1083235: Bug#1083235: Bug#1083235: alacritty: Missing dependency for alacritty

[James McCoy]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 10:31:20PM +0100, NoisyCoil wrote:
>On 24/03/25 19:53, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
>>AFAIK this is exactly the point of Recommends. Not all situations
>>require the package, and the user must change the defaults to not
>>get the dependency installed.
>
>To me "alacritty (literally) crashes on X11 without 
>libxkbcommon-x11-0" reads much more strongly than "not all situations 
>require the package". One can very well argue that not having 
>libxkbcommon-x11-0 installed with X11 is an unusual situation, and I 
>agree, but the solution then is finding out what component of the 
>stack is missing the dependency and adding it there.

The simple solution is probably just to do as you initially suggested - 
Depends on both of them. They have pretty small dependency trees.

Even better would be doing this naturally through detection of used 
symbols so library transitions are handled sanely.

So, I guess I'd refine my near term suggestion of options:

1. Adjust the packaging so dlopen isn't used, which will result in both 
    libraries being Depends automatically.
2. Hard-code unversioned Depends for the libraries

I'm leaning towards 1, but I'd need to investigate what that effort is.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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