[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#768376: libvirt-daemon-system: Please downgrade policykit-1 dependency to recommends

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Guido Günther wrote:
> I'll leave this open to hear about other opinions

+1

I actually decided to not use libvirt on Wheezy, because I noticed
that it would pull in policykit when I will upgrade the server to
Jessie. I do not want any freedesktop.org middleware on any of my
servers. There are usually no other users than root which will use lxc
on servers, hence there's no need for policykit.

Actually I would have written this bug report if Reco wouldn't have.

> but I don't see any drawbacks on depending on polkit by default.

Besides pulling in stuff meant for some specific desktop environments
on servers, I see it as policy violation of a "should" directive: "The
Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
with this one in all but unusual installations."
(https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps)

Hence I would have reported it at level "important", not "minor".

Guido Günther wrote:
> And what about /lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.socket ?

There are people who use other init systems.

		Regards, Axel
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