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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 24.04.19 um 22:31 schrieb 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.
> 

Well, I don't think the alternative is better, i.e. pretend policykit-1
is workable on !linux, even if that means it is less convenient.


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