[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#927896: Bug#927896: policykit-1: Please drop consolekit dependency on !linux

[Samuel Thibault]

Michael Biebl, le mer. 24 avril 2019 22:21:03 +0200, a ecrit:
> Am 24.04.19 um 21:58 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> > Michael Biebl, le mer. 24 avril 2019 21:40:04 +0200, a ecrit:
> >> Am 24.04.19 um 21:24 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> >>> consolekit has been removed, please drop the dependency from the
> >>> policykit-1 package, as the attached patch does.
> >>
> >> I guess we should make policykit-1 linux-any, given that we don't have a
> >> working backend on !linux.
> > 
> > That'd notably mean having to make the libpolkit-gobject-1-dev
> > dependency [linux-any] on apparently 69 packages.
> 
> How so? It would just mean those packages become unbuildable on !linux

Yes, while a lot of them would just build and work fine on !linux
without any change anywhere but keep policykit-1 build find on
!linux.

For instance brltty's dependency on policykit is just a convenience, it
can fully work without it. That's probably the same for a lot of these
69 packages. I don't personally plan to take the time to have a look at
these 69 packages. I don't think anybody will happily plan to.

Samuel