Bug#915407: ping

[Adam Borowski]

Hi!
Could you please either take this patch or propose a different approach?
I have received no feedback other than a brief unconclusive remark on IRC.

The clock for Buster is ticking; to get any testing we'd need to act soon.
Not only this approach has been proposed by one of systemd maintainers
(granted, more as a brainstorming than a definitive proposal from your team)
but it also has seen actual testable packages since January.

I admit that my own testing was extremely uneven -- mostly restricted to
environments I personally use -- but as the idea is opt-in for every
depender on libpam-systemd, packages no one claims to have tested simply
won't be usable without systemd.  Just like they're right now.

Thus: if package X and Y need APIs that elogind provides, they'd be changed
to:
    Depends: default-logind | logind
while package Z that needs a "bring-me-pink-pony" function will not.


Meow!
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