Bug#783827: severe but easily fixable dependency problem

2015-04-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On 30/04/15 17:22, x...@muc.ccc.de wrote: > - dozens if not hundred packages are actually prevented from being installed. I was about to say "name one", but I have a shell script that can do that for me. (See below.) I think you'll find that those dozens or hundreds of packages are the packages t

Bug#783827: severe but easily fixable dependency problem

2015-04-30 Thread x
>> this package dbus does. > > No, it doesn't. It depends on *a support library provided by* systemd. > That's a significant difference. the two strings you left out in your quote are key. - dozens if not hundred packages are actually prevented from being installed. - it's the least possible (in

Bug#783827: severe but easily fixable dependency problem

2015-04-30 Thread x
Package: dbus Severity: Important dbus doesn't depend on systemd. this package dbus does. on systems without systemd this prevents dozens if not hundreds of other packages that fail to install solely because of their false systemd-dependency inherited from dbus. as there might be features of int