[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#744114: Bug#744114: Has an unnecessary hard dependency on systemd stuff

[Michael Biebl]

Am 10.04.2014 12:23, schrieb Frank Gevaerts:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.9.8.8-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> There's *no* reason for the libpam-systemd dependency to be a hard Depends:
> Network Manager works just fine for me without it, 

You need a valid logind context if you want to use NetworkManager as
unprivileged user. See e.g. [0]

and bringing in
> libpam-systemd actually *breaks* stuff (I don't want my network to die
> every time I close the laptop lid!).

That was an issue of stand-alone logind. A feature requested by
sysvinit/upstart users. I've applied a fix to NM in 0.9.8.8-6 to
work-around that issue.

> This should clearly be a Recommends:

I don't see justification to back up you statement.

That said, if you want to make NM independent of systemd/logind, please
contribute to [1]. If NM has runtime switchable backends, the dependency
on systemd/logind could have an alternative to consolekit.

Michael

[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=743128
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686997
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