[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1040908: Please don't depend on mdadm

[Josh Triplett]

Package: libblockdev-mdraid3
Version: 3.0.1-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: josh at joshtriplett.org

Current udisks2 has a dependency on libblockdev-mdraid3, and
libblockdev-mdraid3 has a dependency on mdadm. This effectively makes
mdadm required on desktop systems.

As I understand it from
https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/1142 , udisks2 needs
to depend on libblockdev-mdraid3. (And that much isn't necessarily an
issue, it's just a library.)

Would it be possible for libblockdev-mdraid3 to avoid pulling in mdadm,
so that systems not using RAID don't have to have mdadm and its
associated configuration and boot-time logic installed?