On 20 August 2015 at 20:30, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 2015-08-20 13:38, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > >>The nfct program uses none of the symbols of libnetfilter_conntrack. >> >>Linking against it means that distributors have to maintain an useless >>depedency. > > Not to say the patch is bad, but: > Distributions do not really have to maintain a dependency anyway, > as it can be autodiscovered from the DT_NEEDED entries. In addition, > conntrackd still uses the library, so a dependency in the package > will stay around. In case of debian, there are 3 different binary packages for conntrack, conntrackd and nfct. Each package may have different dependencies. -- Arturo Borrero González -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
