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

[Samuel Thibault]

Michael Biebl, le jeu. 25 avril 2019 00:27:58 +0200, a ecrit:
> 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.

Sure, I completely agree with that, cf the rest of my previous mail.

> Keep in mind that I only proposed to change policykit-1 to linux-any.
> The libpolkit-*-dev packages would still be any.

Ah!  I thought you meant the whole source package...

> 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.

That part looks good enough to me indeed.

Samuel