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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 25.04.19 um 00:06 schrieb 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.

You don't have to disable almost a hundred of dependencies, you just
need to acknowledge that some packages are not fully functional on !linux.

Keep in mind that I only proposed to change policykit-1 to linux-any.
The libpolkit-*-dev packages would still be any.
The effect would be, that packages which declare a hard Depends on
policykit-1 would be not installable on !linux. And I think that's a
good thing. If they really need policykit-1, we should not pretend that
a functional policykit-1 exists when it doesn't.

Regards,
Michael


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