#943728 policycoreutils-dev: do not depend on binutils

Package:
policycoreutils-dev
Source:
selinux-python
Description:
SELinux core policy utilities (development utilities)
Submitter:
Christian Göttsche
Date:
2025-02-03 09:57:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#943728#5
Date:
2019-10-28 16:41:02 UTC
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To:
Please do not depend on binutils.
I do not think this is a hard dependency.
#943728#10
Date:
2023-07-16 16:14:27 UTC
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The included python script generate.py calls nm(1) from binutils.

Maybe the file-split into binary packages could be changed, since I am
mainly interested in sepolgen-ifgen and sepolgen-ifgen-attr-helper,
which have no dependency on binutils.
#943728#15
Date:
2025-02-03 09:52:03 UTC
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To:
severity 943728 wishlist
thanks

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=899173

This is the original bug.  Maybe we could change this to a Recommends, but
it's not a high priority.