Bug#758111: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] installation-reports: Please consider dbus for the core files

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Wed Aug 20 13:50:02 BST 2014


Am 20.08.2014 13:27, schrieb Ansgar Burchardt:
> On 08/20/2014 10:12, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 at 13:24:34 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> Two possible outcomes then
>>>
>>> 1/ Make systemd recommend/depend on dbus (recommend would probably be
>>> sufficient)
>>
>> According to the initial bug report, the base system is installed without
>> Recommends, so no, Recommends is not sufficient unless we arrange for d-i to
>> install dbus some other way. systemd already indirectly Recommends dbus,
>> for instance:
> 
> Then we could also just make sure dbus is included in the base
> installation, i.e. increase its priority to either standard or
> important.

Since systemd already depends on libdbus-1-3, I'd bump libdbus-1-3 to
important and dbus to standard. Does that sound ok?

>  Maybe also for libpam-systemd?

Not quite sure about that one. On one hand, libpam-systemd is mostly
interesting for desktop environments and multi-user systems (and the
desktop meta packages usually already pull in libpam-systemd), so
keeping the base system as small as possible seems desirable.

On the other hand, even stuff like remote access via SSH might need
libpam-systemd, e.g. if you run screen sessions which should persist
when you log out. I *think* this requires a proper logind session to not
be killed on logout, but this would need further investigation.


> systemd should still Recommend: dbus to get it installed on upgrades
> from wheezy.

As Simon already mentioned, libdbus-1-3 already recommends dbus, but I
guess an explicit Recommends in systemd wouldn't hurt.
Also, the user might already have libdbus-1-3- installed in wheezy and
deselected the dbus recommends.
Adding it to systemd would pull it in anew afaics.

Michael
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