[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#747105: policykit-1: depends on systemd

[Laurent Bigonville]

Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sat, 24 May 2014 11:26:50 +0200
> Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Am 24.05.2014 11:04, schrieb Attila Kinali:
> 
> > > I want to add a little bit on this bug here.
> > > IMHO the bug is valid in the sense that policykit unnecessarily
> > > pulls in systemd.
> > 
> > No, it's not unnecessary. policykit-1 requires systemd-logind.
> > Without it, it's broken.
> 
> Then the package dependencies are borken:
> 
> attila at shuuji:~ # dpkg -s policykit-1|grep Status
> Status: install ok installed
> attila at shuuji:~ # dpkg -s systemd-logind|grep Status
> dpkg-query: package 'systemd-logind' is not installed and no
> information is available Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to
> examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to
> list their contents.
> 
> 
> And aparently, the whole system still works, as i can still print
> documents using hplip (which depends on policykit) without having
> systemd-logind installed.


The systemd-logind executable is in the systemd package. Installing
this package is not automatically switching your system to systemd as
PID1 (this is done by the systemd-sysv package).

The only thing policykit requires is a registered logind session.

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville