Bug#946391: gvfs is not installable without systemd as init

[Mikko Rasa]

Source: gvfs
Version: 1.42.1-3
Severity: wishlist

There's a dependency chain gvfs -> gvfs-daemons -> udisks2 -> libpam-systemd ->
systemd-sysv, which is preventing me from installing gvfs.  Gtk's show_uri
function uses gvfs to open a browser, and it seems to me that that should be
achievable even with sysvinit.  There are probably other functionalities that
gvfs can usefully provide without systemd as well.  Please consider adjusting
dependencies so that systemd-sysv is not a hard dependency for gvfs.

I'm not certain if this bug report actually belongs on gvfs, gvfs-daemons,
gvfs-backends of src:gvfs, but I hope someone more familiar with the matter can
move it to a more appropriate package if it doesn't belong here.

PS. I'm aware of the currently ongoing GR on init system support, the solution
of which affects the relevance of this bug report.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.2.14-k8 (SMP w/24 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)