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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [conntrack-tools PATCH] nfct: don't link against
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:46:50 +0200
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 08:54:00AM +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> On 20 August 2015 at 20:30, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> 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.

Also applied, thanks Arturo.