[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#921012: network-manager: change dependency on libpam-systemd to libpam-systemd or libpam-elogind

[Mark Hindley]

Control: reopen -1

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 07:08:33PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:38:07 -0500 Dolphin Oracle
> <dolphinoracle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Package: network-manager
> > Version: 1.14.4-4
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > Since elogind is now included in buster, can the libpam-systemd depend for network-manager 
> > be changed from libpam-systemd to libpam-systemd | libpam-elogind
> 
> network-manager uses interfaces like hostnamed which are not implemented
> by elogind. In case of network-manager elogind is thus not a suitable
> replacement.

Michael,

I am wondering if I can persuade you to reconsider this?

Looking at the sources, if hostnamed is not available, network-manager falls
back to reading /etc/hostname.

My testing of network-manager in cinnamon, xfce4, mate and budgie is that it
functions correctly.

If network-manager limits itself to libpam-systemd, many desktops are not
installable on non-systemd systems even though the are/could be functional.

Thanks for thinking again.

Mark