Bug#863974: hplip should not require systemd
Control: reopen -1
Control: reassign -1 policykit-1
Control: forcemerge 792307 -1
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 05:20:51PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 10:10:57AM -0400, Mark Murawski wrote:
> > 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
>
> HPLIP requires PolicyKit, PolicyKit requires libpam-systemd. And it does not switch
> init systems, it just installs the systemd package. If you don't like that, consider
> contributing to PolicyKit and see how that can be changed.
I take that back. Look at https://bugs.debian.org/792307 - the bug is
tagged wontfix. So let's reopen that and merge it with the other bug,
that's a bit cleaner.
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