Bug#923199: it's already Recommends, but please support elogind
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:45:17AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 01:38:23AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > It already _is_ "Recommends".
> > apt's handling which indeed acts as if the dependency was absolute
> Indeed. I've downgraded this bug's severity.
Those of us on !systemd would be much happier if "apt install ssh" didn't
try to switch inits, thus fixing this for Buster would be nice -- but it
isn't a show stopper, yeah.
> > 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.
Sounds good.
An entirely unsatisfiable Recommends (as opposed to one that's satisfiable
by something you don't want) is handled well by apt, but it's better to be
safe than sorry.
Meow!
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