[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#865398: libguestfs0: unnessarly depends on systemd

[Sven Joachim]

On 2017-06-21 09:49 +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote:

> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
>
> * Ben Hildred:
>
>> Package: libguestfs0
>> Version: 1.34.6-2
>> Severity: serious
>> Justification: Policy 1.34.6-2
>>
>> the dependency on systemd | sysvinit will not be satisfied by sysvinit-core.
>> This is a policy violation.
>
> How is this alternate dependency a policy violation and what concrete
> problem does it cause?

One problem is that the sysvinit binary package no longer exists in
Stretch.

> I just checked why the dependency is there: It is listed in
> appliance/packagelist.in because the libguestfs system needs a
> /sbin/reboot binary -- which happens to be be provided by either of
> these two packages.

Actually, /sbin/reboot is provided by neither of these packages.

,----
| $ apt-file search /sbin/reboot
| molly-guard: /sbin/reboot
| systemd-sysv: /sbin/reboot
| sysvinit-core: /sbin/reboot
`----

So you probably want to depend on systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core, or maybe
on the "init" package.

Cheers,
       Sven