libcacard can never be installed (was: Re: Another unannounced soname bump: libseccomp)

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 10:03:01 UTC 2013


On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:03:42 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> It looks as if the qemu source contains the one canonical copy of
> libcacard.  The separate 'libcacard' package has the following sources
> file:
> 
> $ cat sources 
> 189bc5b87281a72f8c72a0f7ebaa6d00  qemu-1.2.1.tar.bz2
> 
> So probably the 'libcacard' package should be removed.  I'm not
> exactly sure why it exists in the first place.  Perhaps the library
> was originally separate?

It seems so. Years ago:

  $ rpmls -p libcacard-0.1.2-1.fc15.src.rpm
  -rw-rw-r--  libcacard-0.1.2.tar.bz2
  -rw-r--r--  libcacard.spec


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