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. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
