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On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 10:48:35PM +0100, James Clarke wrote:
> As of the above version, e2fsprogs Build-Depends on udev and systemd
> (and cron too which, whilst somewhat perplexing, is not the issue here),
> thereby rendering its build dependencies unsatisfiable on non-Linux
> architectures, namely GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd (the latter being
> particularly important given it uses ext2fs as its filesystem). I went
> digging to see why this was but the commit[1] that added it isn't any
> more enlightening. I haven't tried building it without those packages, but can
> only assume the upstream code still works without udev and systemd. Can we
> please have this fixed in Debian so e2fsprogs builds everywhere again?
Thanks for reporting this! The udev, systemd, and cron packages are
only needed to so the e2scrub scripts will be properly configured, and
e2scrub only works for Linux systems (since it relies on Linux's LVM
system).
I'll fix this for the next release.
- Ted
