Package: lxsession Version: 0.5.3-2 Severity: serious Tags: newcomer Justification: Policy 7.2
lxsession declares a false dependency on systemd. "Depends: This declares an absolute dependency.... The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of functionality." I am running on a system with systemd present on the disk but completely nonfunctional. No lxsession functionality is broken. Perhaps you think lxsession depends on systemd because some lower-level dependencies depend on it (like pulseaudio...) I have been manually addressing lower-level dependencies one by one until none remain. Their own declarations catch stuff directly; lxsession doesn't need to. More packages, same issue: lxde lxde-core openbox-lxde-session task-lxde-desktop -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lxsession depends on: ii laptop-detect 0.16 ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2 ii libc6 2.28-7 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-2 ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-2 ii libfreetype6 2.9.1-3 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.0+dfsg-7 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-3 ii libpam-systemd-apt-holepunch [libpam-systemd] 1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-6 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-6 ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.42.4-6 ii libunique-1.0-0 1.1.6-6 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1 ii lsb-release 10.2018112800 ii lxpolkit [polkit-1-auth-agent] 0.5.3-2 ii lxsession-data 0.5.3-2 ii lxsession-logout 0.5.3-2 ii policykit-1-gnome [polkit-1-auth-agent] 0.105-7 ii polkit-kde-agent-1 [polkit-1-auth-agent] 4:5.14.5-1 Versions of packages lxsession recommends: ii lxsession-edit 0.5.3-2 ii openbox-lxde-session [lxde-session] 0.99.2-3 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:7.9p1-6 Versions of packages lxsession suggests: ii gpicview 0.2.5-2+b1 ii lxpanel 0.9.3-1 ii pcmanfm 1.3.1-1 -- no debconf information