Dealing with the conflicting dbus policies?

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Josh,

Josh Triplett [2014-10-14  7:03 +0200]:
> Given the increasing desire to install systemd-shim even on systems
> moving to systemd, both to make init=/lib/sysvinit/init work and to
> smooth the transition as part of 746578, I think we need a better
> solution for this problem than just updating systemd-shim every time
> systemd's dbus policy changes.

Agreed.

> Simple solution: given that systemd-shim exists to help run systemd
> services without systemd as PID 1, how about making systemd-shim depend
> on systemd, which contains those services?

IMHO this would be the way to go now. I think systemd-shim shipping
its own version of the policy is a leftover from the time when Ubuntu
split systemd-services, and did not install the systemd package. But
now there's only the systemd package in both Debian and Ubuntu. So I
think dropping the D-BUS policy from -shim entirely is now possible,
correct, and desirable. Steve, do you agree?

Thanks,

Martin

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