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

[Samuel Thibault]

Michael Biebl, le mer. 24 avril 2019 23:44:57 +0200, a ecrit:
> It's quite simple really: If policykit-1 is not functional on !linux,
> there should be no policykit-1 package on !linux.

That's a principle I can understand, yes.  But then the principle meets
the rest of what Debian is: a clench of dependencies, policykit-1 being
relatively central in it. Having to spend time to disable almost a
hundred of dependencies is really not a good use of volunteer time.

Really, this has been discussed several times in the past for various
packages: for all people's use of time, it's really better to just leave
an implementation that just returns errors, than having to bug each
and every of a hundred of maintainers just to disable the dependency
because the non-functional implementation was removed. Only to bug them
_*again*_ once the implementation has been made to work, to re-enable
the features that would probably just have been disabled automatically
on getting the error from the non-functional implementation! This is
really exactly the case for the package I know about, brltty.

Samuel