[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1016006: dbus-daemon: systemd | systemd-tmpfiles dependency not resolved gracefully on sysvinit systems

[Mark Hindley]

Michael,

Thanks for this.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 10:31:09AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> My recommendation in [1] was that sysvinit-core should add a Depends on
> systemd-standalone-tmpfiles (a Recommends would probably work fine as well).

There is an obvious reason: sysvinit-core itself does not depend on any
tempfiles implementation. Adding suprious dependencies to try to help APT find a
particular solution seems misplaced logic to me and is against the Policy.

Best wishes

Mark