Am 18.03.2018 um 01:03 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Am 17.03.2018 um 18:33 schrieb Benedikt Spranger: >> On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 03:02:19 +0100 >> Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:51:35 +0100 Benedikt Spranger >>> <b.spran...@linutronix.de> wrote: >>>> Package: consolekit >>>> Version: 0.4.6-6 >>>> Severity: serious >>>> >>>> Dear Maintainer, >>>> >>>> please readd consolekit to the archive. Without consolekit the >>>> dependency to libpam-systemd as alternative to consolekit forces me >>>> to install systemd without any further benefit. >>>> >>>> Since my systems works fine before (and till now, since consolekit >>>> 0.4.6-6 is installed) the removal of consolekit from the archive >>>> causes a regression. As my understanding of init system >>>> dependencies this is a serious bug, since it forces a dependency to >>>> a special system init system without any need. >>> >>> This is incorrect. The removal of consolekit does not enforce a switch >>> to a different init system. You are probably mistaking systemd with >>> systemd-sysv. Please read the package descriptions carefully. >> >> Please read the bug report carefully. I do not claim it forces me to >> use, it forces me to *install* systemd due to libpam-systemd as >> alternative to consolekit. So it forces me to *install* a different >> init system: > > You said, it "forces a dependency to a special init system". > And this is simply wrong. > You are mixing up systemd as init system with systemd-logind here. > systemd-logind is a maintained alternative to consolekit. > consolekit is dead upstream, unmaintained and has many design flaws. > That it breaks certain setups like in #888892 was just the last straw > that broke the camels back. > > Keep in mind, I'm the former maintainer of consolekit, so I very much > know about its shortcomings.
This was the last commit ever done to consolekit upstream https://cgit.freedesktop.org/ConsoleKit/commit/?id=af75e100dc4d4fac2e1633aa134e40e390d38918 (2013) It's been dormant for much longer before that. Active maintenance stop much earlier, around 2011. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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