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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 12.07.23 um 11:14 schrieb 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,

By avoid, I assume you mean not even demoting it to Recommends would be 
an option for you, but drop the dependency completely (or make it a 
Suggests)

> so that systems not using RAID don't have to have mdadm and its
> associated configuration and boot-time logic installed?

And then I'll get bug reports like
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=989493

I can't really win this.


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