[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1112622: Bug#1112622: cockpit-storaged: btrfs support missing

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Joshua,

Michael Biebl [2025-08-31 23:02 +0200]:
> Yeah. Not sure if udisks2-btrfs qualifies for being bumped to Recommends, so
> would be installed by default (probably not yet).

IMHO this isn't a question of "not yet", but it shouldn't be Cockpit's place to
pull in btrfs support packages onto your system unconditionally. It is a
Suggests:, and I'll update the package description to explain when you want to
install it.

What we'd *really* want is a dependency "Recommends udisks2-btrfs if btrfs-progs
is already installed", but dpkg cannot express that.  rpm rich dependencies can
do that:

  Recommends: (udisks2-btrfs >= 2.9 if btrfs-progs)

but there's no dpkg equivalent.

So I'm afraid this is mostly a "wontfix" :-(

Martin
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