Bug#996979: libsrtp2-dev: libpcap-dev really required?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Alexander,

Quoting Alexander Traud (2021-10-21 21:42:37)
> The -dev package has a dependency on libpcap, even on libpcap-dev. 
> Once [1] you had a -utils package, and libpcap was required for its 
> tool rtp_decoder. As I cannot find the -utils package anymore, is that 
> dependency still required? When I build libsrtp2 manually via
> 
> ./configure --enable-nss
> make shared_library
> 
> and link against the resulting .so, I never required libpcap-dev. 
> Therefore, I am curios.
> 
> [1] <https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-voip-team/libsrtp2/-/commit/c2b0eb2>

It seems indeed that libpcap is unneeded at runtime - used only as part 
of the testsuite.

Thanks for reporting this!


 - Jonas

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