[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#873368: network-manager: alternative network-manager package without systemd dependency

[Eduardo Trápani]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.6.2-3
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

An alternative network-manager package can be built without dependencies on systemd. From the mailing list upstream:

> systemd should not be essential for NM. The various points of systemd integration (suspend/resume, hostname, session-tracking, journal, etc) should be either build-time or runtime selectable. 

--with-systemdsystemunitdir=no
--with-session-tracking=none
--with-suspend-resume=consolekit

Could you build a network-manager-nosystemd from the same source package by using these flags?

[1] http://gnome-networkmanager.2324886.n4.nabble.com/Running-NM-without-systemd-tp26578p26582.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_UY.utf8, LC_CTYPE=es_UY.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=es_UY.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.115
ii  dbus                   1.10.18-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.48
ii  libaudit1              1:2.6.7-2
ii  libbluetooth3          5.43-2
ii  libc6                  2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.50.3-2
ii  libgnutls30            3.5.8-5+deb9u2
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         230-3
ii  libjansson4            2.9-1
ii  libmm-glib0            1.6.4-1
ii  libndp0                1.6-1+b1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.19-1+b1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.27-2
ii  libnm0                 1.6.2-3
ii  libpam-systemd         232-25+deb9u1
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-18
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-18
ii  libreadline7           7.0-3
ii  libselinux1            2.6-3+b1
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.56.0-2
ii  libsystemd0            232-25+deb9u1
ii  libteamdctl0           1.26-1+b1
ii  libuuid1               2.29.2-1
ii  lsb-base               9.20161125
ii  policykit-1            0.105-18
ii  udev                   232-25+deb9u1
ii  wpasupplicant          2:2.4-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda             3.18-1
ii  dnsmasq-base     2.76-5+b1
ii  iptables         1.6.0+snapshot20161117-6
ii  iputils-arping   3:20161105-1
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.3.5-3
ii  modemmanager     1.6.4-1
ii  ppp              2.4.7-1+4

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  libteam-utils  <none>

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