[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1025606: network-manager: build-depends on transitional policykit-1 package

[Simon McVittie]

Source: network-manager
Version: 1.40.6-1
Severity: normal
User: pkg-utopia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: policykit-1
Control: block 1025540 by -1

This package has a Build-Depends on the transitional package policykit-1,
which has been separated into polkitd, pkexec and (deprecated)
polkitd-pkla packages. The runtime dependency was already switched to
polkitd | policykit-1.

If this package requires polkit at build-time for the gettext
extensions polkit.its and polkit.loc, please build-depend on both
libpolkit-gobject-1-dev and polkitd, even if the package does not
actually depend on libpolkit-gobject-1 at runtime. This is because
the gettext extensions are currently in polkitd, but might be moved to
libpolkit-gobject-1-dev in future (see #955204).

If it needs polkitd for some other reason, please build-depend on
polkitd. I'm assuming it probably doesn't need pkexec at build-time?

For packages that are expected to be backported to bullseye, it's OK to
use an alternative dependency like polkitd | policykit-1. The backports
build-dependency resolver is willing to consider less-preferred alternative
build-dependencies, unlike the unstable build-dependency resolver.

This is part of a mass bug filing, see
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/10/msg00211.html>.

Thanks,
    smcv