[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Policykit-1 support for elogind

[Mark Hindley]

Hello,

We now have elogind in Debian as an alternative logind implementation.

I would like to see policykit-1 support libelogind and would like your opinion
on the best way to achieve this.

I have prepared packages based on 0.105-25 for Devuan and I also have a proof of
concept tree based on Debian/experimental (0.115).

Because libsystemd0 or libelogind0 is linked at compile time, the approach I
have adopted is to configure and build the sources twice and then package
different flavours of policykit.

Obviously, it would be easier if this was a runtime choice, but I have not seen
a way of doing that easily.

My questions are:-

 1) What do you think of this approach?
 2) Can you see a way to manage this choice at rumtime?
 3) I am happy to prepare patches. Do you want to base them on 0.105 or 0.115?

Many thanks.

Mark