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



On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 12:25:44PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:45:17AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > 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.

Yeah, disagreeing with the RC severity doesn't mean I don't plan to fix
it :-)

> > 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.

Indeed; it's more so that backports don't accidentally end up not
pulling in libpam-systemd when they should and thus causing weird
problems.

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]


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