Bug#923201: it's already Recommends, but please support elogind

[Felipe Sateler]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 01:27:50 +0100 Adam Borowski <kilobyte at angband.pl>
wrote:
> Control: tags -1 +patch
>
> > pulseaudio has a hard dependency on libpam-systemd.  Violates "Depends:
> > This declares an absolute dependcy...
>
> > Fix: change Depends: libpam-systemd to Recommends: libpam-systemd
>
> It already _is_ "Recommends".
>
> I guess the submitter got confused by apt's handling which indeed acts as
if
> the dependency was absolute if there's any way to satisfy the Recommends,
> and failing with a wrong message if there's a hold or pin.
>
> But, since recently there's a way:
> Change:
>   Recommends: libpam-systemd
> to
>   Recommends: default-logind | logind
>
> which is satisfied by libpam-systemd and libpam-elogind.  It'd be nice if
it
> could apply this.
>

Pulseaudio needs not only logind for user tracking (which could be replaced
by other logind), but right now requires it for actually starting up (it
requires systemd --user). Please help
https://salsa.debian.org/pulseaudio-team/pulseaudio/merge_requests/6 get
merged and then we can do this.

Saludos
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