Bug#769273: bsdutils: Dependency on libsystemd0 violates policy

[Tim Wootton]

On 12/11/14 14:29, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 12.11.2014 um 15:04 schrieb Andreas Henriksson:
>> Hello Tim Wootton, release-team, et.al.!
>>
>> Thanks for your bug report.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:00:16AM +0000, Tim Wootton wrote:
>>> Package: bsdutils
>>> Version: 1:2.25.2-2
>>> Severity: serious
>>> Justification: Policy 2.5
>>>
>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>>
>>> libsystemd0 dependancy violates constraint at the end of section 2.5
>>> of the policy manual that requires packages not depend on packages
>>> with lower priority.
>>
>> This (general) problem has been discussed (several times?) on
>> debian-devel already and as far as I remember and understood it was that
>> raising the priority of the relevant systemd binary packages could be
>> done but it did not solve any *practical* problem. Instead it seemed
>> easier to just fix policy. I guess that's where everyone lost
>> interest....
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> Indeed, it doesn't fix any actual problem, but raising priority of
> library and helper packages actually creates problems.
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> Let's take rsyslog as an example, which is priority important, so
> raising all the library dependencies to >= important now means, if I
> debootstrap a chroot and want to exclude rsyslog, I have to exclude all
> dependend libraries as well. Or if I remove rsyslog (e.g. because I
> switched to another syslogger or no syslogger), I have to manually
> uninstall the unused libraries.
>
> Please, let's not continue doing this non-sense and fix policy.

or just build without the dependency in the 1st place like it used to 
be. After all it's not like it adds anything that's essential.

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