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Bug#800666: Please change dependency on "consolekit | systemd"



Hi,

this bug has been tagged pending for months. Is there any progress in
getting the fix uploaded? What's blocking the upload?

If it's -ENOTIME, I could offer to NMU.

Regards,
Michael

On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 10:57:51 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:

> currently libpolkit-qt5-1-1 has a
> Depends: consolekit | systemd
> 
> Consolekit is basically dead and not really used anymore in Debian, it
> has been replaced by logind.
> E.g. policykit-1 has been switched from consolekit to logind since
> Jessie.
> 
> For a fully functional logind session, you want to have libpam-systemd
> installed.
> 
> My recommendation therefor is to either drop the dependency completely
> and simply let the policykit-1 package pull in the necessary
> dependencies or change the dependency to "libpam-systemd | consolekit",
> assuming that the consolekit backend is actually usable (and tested).


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