Bug#704180: Use p11-kit to replace nssckbi

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le 11/01/19 à 18:28, Daniel Kahn Gillmor a écrit :
> On Fri 2019-01-11 18:17:26 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
>> The problem is what/who will decide if this package is installed? If
>> that package is being pulled by on other package for some reason, that
>> means that the local administrator will not be able to revert the
>> decision of the package maintainer who has added this dependency
> agreed, a runtime dependency on that for anything but a "preferred
> system configuration"-style metapackage would be a bad thing.  but it'd
> also be a very visible thing.
>
> Hopefully if that happend, the affected user could report a bug on that
> dependency, and in the meantime work around it with something like
> equivs.

The problem is that if nothing is pulling the new package in the default 
installation, nobody will ever use it. And we will create a new 
difference between debian and the other distributions.