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Hello Simon,

On Sun 30 Dec 2018 at 03:52PM +00, Simon McVittie wrote:

> Maybe "via D-Bus and <systemd/sd-login.h>" or "via D-Bus and sd-login(3)"?

I've committed the latter.

> If a logind provider such as elogind doesn't result in the libsystemd
> sd-login APIs working (at least as well as they would with the provided
> logind version), would you consider that to be a bug in the provider?
> I asked this earlier in the bug and didn't notice an answer (my apologies
> if there has been one that I missed).
>
> I ask because libsystemd users like dbus and policykit-1 cannot be linked
> to both libsystemd and libelogind without compiling the daemon twice and
> somehow arranging to run the right one for the installed system, which
> I think is an undesirable level of complexity; for Debian, we should be
> preferring the library that matches our default installation, which is
> libsystemd. Derivatives like Devuan that don't have libsystemd at all
> are of course free to link their libsystemd users to libelogind instead.

We don't seem to have a consensus on this question yet.  I don't
properly understand the issue, but it doesn't seem like it needs to
block adding the virtual packages to the list.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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