[arch-general] namcap

[Allan McRae]

Baho Utot wrote:
> I tried namcap a freshly built fakeroot from the latest abs sync
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> Here is what it said
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> namcap fakeroot-1.12.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz 
> fakeroot   E: Dependency detected and not included (bash) from files
> ['usr/bin/fakeroot']
> fakeroot   W: Dependency included but already satisfied (glibc)
> fakeroot   W: Dependency included and not needed (filesystem)
> fakeroot   W: Dependency included and not needed (grep)
> fakeroot   W: Dependency included and not needed (sed)
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> This is the dependency line from the PKGBUILD
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> depends=('glibc' 'filesystem' 'grep' 'sed')
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> What is namcap telling me ?
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> Could fakeroot be built from a PKGBUILD without those dependencies?
> And is missing the bash dependency?
>   

Namcap is telling you that the dependencies should include bash (or more 
specifically sh).  That is a bug, so file a bug report and will I fix it 
next update.

As far as glibc goes, it is probably satisifed by another package in 
fakeroots dep list (e.g. grep).  It is somewhat good to reduced the 
number of listed dpes if possible as pacman has to do less checking when 
installed.  So that is just a warning.

The filesystem, grep and sed issues say that fakeroot does not appear to 
need these packages.  But it does...  look at the commands in the 
install script.

Namcap is a good guideline, but it requires the user to do some 
investigation themself.  Missing deps are almost always an error.

Allan