Bumping dbus depends (Re: systemd-boot (Re: PR: fsateler/coredump))

[Michael Biebl]

Am 14.10.2015 um 14:48 schrieb Felipe Sateler:
> On 14 October 2015 at 08:41, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
>> Am 14.10.2015 um 10:39 schrieb Martin Pitt:
>>>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=5daf857
>>>
>>> Although this is really a tangent to this thread, as there are other
>>> conffiles which we can't remove that easily.
> 
> I've been thinking there is another problem: dbus-daemon does not
> support reexecs. This means that the system will be in a broken state
> until it reboots. I think at the very least a NEWS item should be
> added.

That's a valid point. I wonder whether we should start moving the policy
files after stretch because of this.

>> Small nit: For systemd, where dbus is only a recommends, versioning the
>> recommends is not really sufficient to ensure a recent enough version.
>> We'd also have to add a versioned Breaks.
> 
> dbus has a strict dependency on libdbus-1-3 (at least in sid, it
> doesn't appear so in jessie). The versioned Build-Depends on
> libdbus-1-dev should propagate to the binary Depends (if libdbus has a
> symbols file, which IIRC it does), which in turn should forbid an old
> dbus-daemon.
> 

Well, libdbus-1-dev is only required for the test-suite, systemd itself
doesn't use libdbus anymore. So there will be no (versioned) dependency
on libdbus-1-3 which would enforce the correct dbus version.


CCed Simon for this thoughts on this. Maybe it's too early to move the
policy files around

Michael

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