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FS#31695 - Extraneous "Required by"

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Pierre Carrier (pcarrier) - Tuesday, 25 September 2012, 20:01 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 16 November 2012, 14:21 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jürgen Hötzel (juergen)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.0.3
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
- pacman shows strange "Required By"

Steps to Reproduce:
~ % pacman -Qi sbcl|grep Required
Required By : atop binutils boost-libs consolekit cracklib curl elfutils exiv2 ffmpeg file freetype2 ghostscript gnutls hspell kmod lib32-zlib libarchive libfontenc libid3tag libmng libpng libpng12 libtiff libzip man-db nss openexr openjpeg python python2 slang taglib
~ % pacman --version

.--. Pacman v4.0.3 - libalpm v7.0.3
/ _.-' .-. .-. .-. Copyright (C) 2006-2012 Pacman Development Team
\ '-. '-' '-' '-' Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Judd Vinet
'--'
This program may be freely redistributed under
the terms of the GNU General Public License.

~ % sudo pacman -Rsc sbcl
checking dependencies...

Targets (1):

Name Old Version New Version Net Change

sbcl 1.0.58-1 -66.77 MiB

Total Removed Size: 66.77 MiB

Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Friday, 16 November 2012, 14:21 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  sbcl 1.1.1-2
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Wednesday, 26 September 2012, 01:37 GMT
That's because sbcl provides zlib. I don't know if it's a bug or intended behavior.
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Wednesday, 26 September 2012, 01:54 GMT
That can't be right...
Comment by Matthias Dienstbier (fs4000) - Wednesday, 26 September 2012, 11:47 GMT
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/sbcl&id=2c9a2f29116882fed4af8840e4749f52c3b22eaa

I think zlib should have been added to the depends line. ;)

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