Bug#857869: synaptic: forced dependency on systemd overkill

2018-01-21 Thread Thierry Bothorel
I am also affected by this "behaviour". It would be harmless to existing distributions to set policykit-1 as a recommended package as is is the default setting, but it would make power user that do not install automatically recommended packages a lot happier. Regards Thierry B.

Bug#857869: synaptic: forced dependency on systemd overkill

2017-03-15 Thread Tom Goulet
Package: synaptic Version: 0.84.2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Since the dependency was changed to require policykit-1 it's no longer possible to have any init system installed other than systemd since polickit-1 depends on libpam-systemd which depends on systemd, which excludes sysvinit-