rtkit package dependencies

James Cowgill jcowgill at debian.org
Thu Mar 1 22:33:56 GMT 2018


Hi,

On 01/03/18 21:46, Adam Lambert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On my debian testing system, I see in the recent change between version
> 0.11-5 and 0.11-6 that the dependencies of rtkit package were changed to
> move policykit-1 from 'recommends' to 'depends'.   Prior to this, I had
> (well, still have,  just with the old version of rtkit) a SystemD free
> environment, and I was really hoping to keep it that way (actually, I will
> keep it that way, even if I have to depart the Debian universe after 20
> years of using it, which would be a shame).
> 
> I am requesting (strongly) that the 'depends' be reverted back to
> 'recommends'.

You realise that rtkit is totally useless without policykit (it will
refuse all operations unless it is running)?

James

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