[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#747105: policykit-1: depends on systemd

[Attila Kinali]

Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.105-5
Followup-For: Bug #747105
Control: severity #747105 normal
Control: reopen #747105


Hi,

I want to add a little bit on this bug here.
IMHO the bug is valid in the sense that policykit unnecessarily pulls
in systemd. Chosing systemd-shim, as described in bug #747397, does
not work as the dependency is unconditional.

The current CTTE's descision on the init system is not to force
any of the init systems (see [1]). As such, i find it quite
offencive to use a salami technique to get in systemd bit by bit
until "everyone has installed systemd anways, so we can now officially switch"

As policykit is the basis for a couple of quite usefull tools to access
privileged resources, these tools have a hard dependency on policykit.
By this, even a simple printer driver (like hplip) pulls in systemd.
And i think, you would quite agree, that a printer driver should not
depend on a specific init system at all.

Thus, i would like to reopen this bug and like the maintainers remove
the dependency on systemd itself (depending on the libraries is not
nice, but ok IMHO).

Thanks

			Attila Kinali


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727708#7575

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages policykit-1 depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.8.2-1
ii  libc6                  2.18-5
ii  libexpat1              2.1.0-4
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.40.0-3
ii  libpam-systemd         204-8
ii  libpam0g               1.1.8-3
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-5
ii  libpolkit-backend-1-0  0.105-5
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-5
ii  libsystemd-login0      204-8

policykit-1 recommends no packages.

policykit-1 suggests no packages.

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