Bug#863974: hplip should not require systemd
Package: hplip
Version: 3.16.11+repack0-3
Severity: important
* What led up to the situation?
# apt-get install hplip
Outcome:
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
hplip-data libhpmud0 libpam-systemd libsane-hpaio policykit-1 printer-driver-hpcups printer-driver-postscript-hp systemd
Suggested packages:
hplip-doc hplip-gui python3-notify2 system-config-printer systemd-ui systemd-container
The following NEW packages will be installed:
hplip libpam-systemd policykit-1 printer-driver-postscript-hp systemd
The following packages will be upgraded:
hplip-data libhpmud0 libsane-hpaio printer-driver-hpcups
4 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2119 not upgraded.
My distribution is set up with sysvinit. There is no reason that installing a printer driver should require switching init systems
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (750, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.7 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii coreutils 8.23-4
ii cups 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii hplip-data 3.16.11+repack0-2
ii libc6 2.24-9
ii libcups2 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.18-1
ii libhpmud0 3.16.11+repack0-2
ii libsane 1.0.24-8+deb8u1
ii libsane-hpaio 3.16.11+repack0-2
ii libsnmp30 5.7.3+dfsg-1.7
ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1t-1+deb8u5
ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.19-1
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
pn policykit-1 <none>
ii printer-driver-hpcups 3.16.11+repack0-2
ii python 2.7.13-2
ii python-dbus 1.2.0-2+b3
ii python-gobject-2 2.28.6-12+b1
ii python-imaging 2.6.1-2+deb8u2
ii python-pexpect 3.2-1
ii python-reportlab 3.1.8-3+deb8u1
ii wget 1.16-1
Versions of packages hplip recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.31-5
pn printer-driver-postscript-hp <none>
ii sane-utils 1.0.24-8+deb8u1
Versions of packages hplip suggests:
pn hplip-doc <none>
pn hplip-gui <none>
pn python-notify <none>
pn system-config-printer <none>
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