[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#923240: policykit-1: Please support alternative logind implementations

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sun Aug 11 17:18:18 BST 2019


On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 16:56:17 +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 01:09:33PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > I hope sd-daemon(3) is also implemented? Before it was absorbed into
> > libsystemd, that used to be a "copylib" intended to be pasted into portable
> > software like dbus-daemon - so hopefully it's still usable as a standalone
> > implementation of things like the LISTEN_FDS protocol.
> 
> Yes. I will add that to the description. The one exception is sd_is_mq() as
> upstream has excluded POSIX message queues from the implementation.

I think that's probably fine - I suspect the original implementation in
systemd only included sd_is_mq() out of a sense of completeness, and it
used to cause build problems in dbus when we were using the original
"copylib" version, because it was the only thing pulling in librt.

    smcv



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