Package: snmptrapfmt
Version: 1.11
Severity: serious
Tags: etch-ignore
Hi Jochen,
The snmptrapfmt package is uninstallable in unstable because it has the
following dependencies:
Package: snmptrapfmt
Depends: snmpd, libsnmp9
libsnmp9 is no longer available in unstable, having been replaced with
libsnmp10. Because this is the result of a hard-coded dependency in
debian/control, the problem cannot be fixed in a binNMU.
There are two problems that I see with this Depends: field:
- As far as I can tell, nothing in snmptrapfmt uses libsnmp9 directly,
either by linking against it or by dlopen()ing it. If this is true, this
part of the dependency line should be dropped.
- snmptrapfmt *does* build dynamically-linked ELF binaries, which means that
the package is missing a dependency on ${shlibs:Depends}. This is not
optional, any such packages must at least declare their relationship to
glibc so that packages are upgraded in the right order.
Please correct these issues.
Thanks,
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