Bug#830575: nspawn lacks a dependency on dbus

[Michael Biebl]

Am 11.07.2016 um 15:02 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
> 
> On Monday 2016-07-11 14:18, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 09.07.2016 um 18:33 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
>>> Package: systemd-container
>>> Version: 230-5
>>>
>>> nspawn fails to start the selected program. It appears to need dbus, and Debian
>>> is missing a Requires:. System has version "stretch main" listed in apt
>>> sources.list.
>>
>> systemd has a Recommends: dbus, so I assume you have
>> Recommends-installed-by-default disabled?
> 
> I have whatever default Debian gave me, and I would not be surprised
> if that was indeed disabled - it has been disabled in the
> distribution for as long as I can remember. And I am not even
> contesting that default.

The default is to install Recommends by default.
So I wonder how you ended up without dbus.


> As for the systemd package, it would therefore appear that the
> Recommends should be turned into Requires.

For the systemd-container package we might consider adding a hard
depends if systemd-nspawn and machined don't work without it.



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