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libnsl2 not included by default on ubuntu 24.04

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
python, ubuntu

Research direction

Reproduce the failure on Ubuntu 24.04 and inspect the published wheel's shared-library dependencies. Read the auditwheel discussion in issue #45 and verify the licensing implications of bundling libnsl2. Done means a published wheel works out of the box on Ubuntu 24.04 with an acceptable dependency or bundling approach.

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Description

The master branch does not work out of the box on ubuntu 24.04 unless you install libnsl:

sudo apt install libnsl2

It would be convenient to bundle this file in our published wheel, perhaps with help of auditwheel as suggested in #45 . However, libnsl is LGPL and it's unclear if there are implications for including it in a bundled release.

Could we explore ways to resolve this?

  • Maybe it's a non-issue to bundle it?
  • Maybe we can trim down the bundled shared libraries to what's absolutely essential
Dominant language
Python
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5
Forks
1
Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
3

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