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LudovicRousseau / pyscard

pyscard smartcard library for python
http://pyscard.sourceforge.net/
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Debian package is missing dependency #42

Closed rugo closed 7 years ago

rugo commented 7 years ago

Hi,

I don't know if this belongs here, but after installing your package on Debian via

apt install python-pyscard

You get the error:

smartcard.pcsc.PCSCExceptions.EstablishContextException: 'Failure to establish context: Service not available.'

when using your library.

This is because the service pcscd is not installed. Which can easily be fixed of course.

My question now is, why the dependencies of the debian package:

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), python (>= 2.7), python (<< 2.8)

Do not contain pcscd?

My system:

Linux debian 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 (2017-03-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Greets

LudovicRousseau commented 7 years ago

Debian bugs should be reported to https://bugs.debian.org. I am also the Debian maintainer of all these packages so I can answer here.

libpcsclite1 https://packages.debian.org/sid/libpcsclite1 (used by python-pyscard) has a suggest dependency on pcscd.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612971 to know why the dependency is not stronger.