Your message dated Mon, 02 Dec 2019 20:23:51 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#834026: libghc-yi-rope-dev: links against libicu but
doesn't depend on it
has caused the Debian Bug report #834026,
regarding libghc-yi-rope-dev: links against libicu but doesn't depend on it
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Package: libghc-yi-rope-dev
Version: 0.7.0.1-3
Severity: serious
$ objdump -x
usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib/x86_64-linux-ghc-7.10.3/yi-rope-0.7.0.1-HiTY8p3VPT60NpepXpO5r3/libHSyi-rope-0.7.0.1-HiTY8p3VPT60NpepXpO5r3-ghc7.10.3.so
| grep libicu
NEEDED libicuuc.so.55
NEEDED libicui18n.so.55
NEEDED libicudata.so.55
But no dependency against libicu55.
This may be because of:
dh_shlibdeps -plibghc-yi-rope-dev -XlibHS
From:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=haskell-yi-rope&arch=i386&ver=0.7.0.1-3%2Bb2&stamp=1464933179
Cheers,
Emilio
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Hello,
On Mon 02 Dec 2019 at 08:14PM -07, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Tue 16 Aug 2016 at 09:55AM -04, Joachim Breitner wrote:
>
>> I believe the problem is the following: When linking libghc-yi-rope-
>> dev, ghc (or Caba?) will look at all its dependencies, and their
>> "extra-libraries" fields ("icuuc icui18n icudata" for text-icu) and
>> pass that to the linker (as "-licuuc -licui18n -licudata"). This is how
>> we get this unwanted dependency.
>>
>> But since yi-rope does itself not actually use any of these symbols,
>> this is probably not required! And not passing these libraries here
>> should solve the problem.
>
> If this diagnosis of the problem is correct, then I believe that the bug
> severity should be set back to 'serious'.
>
> If libicu is not present on the system, attempts to open yi-rope will
> crash because the dynamic linker will try and fail to open libicu, even
> though no symbols from that library actually get used.
... however, libghc-yi-rope-dev doesn't link against libicu anymore.
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