Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations
Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> writes:
> That was a thread I started on debian-devel:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/08/msg00278.html
> The resolution of that thread seemed to be that people were mostly fine
> with the dependency chain because every decision in the path makes
> sense, even if the end result does not.
> Without the package pin of systemd-sysv at -100, installing the
> "libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev" package causes an init system switch for me. With
> the package pin, apt finds no resolution even though one exists
> (#940965).
This is a point that Ian's proposal specifically addresses by accepting
the possibility that packages will be installable but not usable on
non-systemd systems in order to avoid these sorts of dependency chains.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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