Bug#923199: it's already Recommends, but please support elogind

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 01:38:23AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> It already _is_ "Recommends".
> 
> I guess the submitter got confused by apt's handling which indeed acts as if
> the dependency was absolute if there's any way to satisfy the Recommends,
> and failing with a wrong message if there's a hold or pin.

Indeed.  I've downgraded this bug's severity.

> But, since recently there's a way:
> Change:
>   Recommends: libpam-systemd
> to
>   Recommends: default-logind | logind
> 
> which is satisfied by libpam-systemd and libpam-elogind.  It'd be nice if it
> could apply this.

Thanks - seems reasonable.  Would it be OK to make this be "Recommends:
default-logind | logind | libpam-systemd" instead for a while (not
permanently)?  I think that would reduce the likelihood of backport
accidents.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]