[Kea-users] Build warnings under Debian Stretch

Jason Guy jguy at cumulusnetworks.com
Mon Feb 5 15:03:43 UTC 2018


Hi Francis,

This is the 1.3 source package I am helping the maintainer with. So the
hooks are whatever is in the 1.3.0 tar. Everything builds, and I am going
to be deploying with this package. But I wanted to get a second opinion. :)

Thanks,
Jason

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:18 AM Francis Dupont <fdupont at isc.org> wrote:

> Jason Guy writes:
> > In my latest build, I see a few warnings, and I was not sure if these are
> > something I should file a bug for, or simply ignore under Debian. None of
> > these cause a problem, but I want to verify these will not be an issue:
>
> => useless dependency is just useless...
>
> > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if
> > debian/kea-common/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkea-dhcpsrv.so.8.0.0 was
> not
> > linked against libz.so.1 (it uses none of the library's symbols)
>
> => I am afraid this libz dependency is very indirect, perhaps from
> a crypto library. config.status should say more but it should not be
> enough a problem to justify an effort to solve it.
>
> > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if
> > debian/kea-common/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hooks/libdhcp_lease_cmds.so
> > debian/kea-common/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkea-dhcp_ddns.so.1.0.2
> > debian/kea-common/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkea-process.so.1.0.0
> > debian/kea-common/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkea-dhcpsrv.so.8.0.0 were
> not
> > linked against libkea-cfgclient.so.4 (they use none of the library's
> > symbols)
> >    dh_installdeb -O-B
> >    dh_gencontrol -O-B
>
> => a bit more surprising. BTW what is the version of lease cmds hook code?
>
> > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package kea-dev: unknown
> > substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends}
> >    dh_md5sums -O-B
> >    dh_builddeb -O-B
>
> => fully Debian specific (and internal). IMHO this should be ignored.
>
> Thanks
>
> Francis Dupont <fdupont at isc.org>
>
> PS: I noted we should look at the Debian tool which detects useless
> dependencies.
>
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