On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 06:29:10PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Steve Langasek writes ("Bug#727708: systemd-shim uploaded to NEW"):
> > So I repeat here my request that the systemd maintainers make a suitable
> > split of the systemd binary package, so that systemd-shim will be
> > coinstallable with the systemd-provided implementations of the other dbus
> > services.> Is there a summary of the systemd maintainers' response to this > request ? I glanced #726763 and #729576 but they were very long and > if the answer is in there I probably wouldn't have found it. The relevant discussion on debian-devel is here: http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20131024012751.ga7...@virgil.dodds.net http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/87bo2fyruk.fsf...@qurzaw.varnish-software.com > > The only alternative I see is for systemd-shim to declare a > > Replaces: against systemd without a Conflicts, > This would be quite wrong; Replaces is not supposed to be used like > that (but you apparently know that). Yes. Raphaël rightly points out that dpkg-divert can be used for this; if necessary, that's what I'll do. But I still think the right thing here is for the systemd package to be split. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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