Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.105-5
Followup-For: Bug #747105
Control: severity #747105 normal
Control: reopen #747105
Hi,
I want to add a little bit on this bug here.
IMHO the bug is valid in the sense that policykit unnecessarily pulls
in systemd. Chosing systemd-shim, as described in bug #747397, does
not work as the dependency is unconditional.
The current CTTE's descision on the init system is not to force
any of the init systems (see [1]). As such, i find it quite
offencive to use a salami technique to get in systemd bit by bit
until "everyone has installed systemd anways, so we can now officially switch"
As policykit is the basis for a couple of quite usefull tools to access
privileged resources, these tools have a hard dependency on policykit.
By this, even a simple printer driver (like hplip) pulls in systemd.
And i think, you would quite agree, that a printer driver should not
depend on a specific init system at all.
Thus, i would like to reopen this bug and like the maintainers remove
the dependency on systemd itself (depending on the libraries is not
nice, but ok IMHO).
Thanks
Attila Kinali
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727708#7575
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages policykit-1 depends on:
ii dbus 1.8.2-1
ii libc6 2.18-5
ii libexpat1 2.1.0-4
ii libglib2.0-0 2.40.0-3
ii libpam-systemd 204-8
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3
ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.105-5
ii libpolkit-backend-1-0 0.105-5
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-5
ii libsystemd-login0 204-8
policykit-1 recommends no packages.
policykit-1 suggests no packages.
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