Am 24.04.19 um 23:37 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > Michael Biebl, le mer. 24 avril 2019 22:56:11 +0200, a ecrit: >> Am 24.04.19 um 22:31 schrieb Samuel Thibault: >>> Michael Biebl, le mer. 24 avril 2019 22:21:03 +0200, a ecrit: >>>> Am 24.04.19 um 21:58 schrieb Samuel Thibault: >>>>> Michael Biebl, le mer. 24 avril 2019 21:40:04 +0200, a ecrit: >>>>>> Am 24.04.19 um 21:24 schrieb Samuel Thibault: >>>>>>> consolekit has been removed, please drop the dependency from the >>>>>>> policykit-1 package, as the attached patch does. >>>>>> >>>>>> I guess we should make policykit-1 linux-any, given that we don't have a >>>>>> working backend on !linux. >>>>> >>>>> That'd notably mean having to make the libpolkit-gobject-1-dev >>>>> dependency [linux-any] on apparently 69 packages. >>>> >>>> How so? It would just mean those packages become unbuildable on !linux >>> >>> Yes, while a lot of them would just build and work fine on !linux >>> without any change anywhere but keep policykit-1 build find on >>> !linux. >>> >>> For instance brltty's dependency on policykit is just a convenience, it >>> can fully work without it. That's probably the same for a lot of these >>> 69 packages. I don't personally plan to take the time to have a look at >>> these 69 packages. I don't think anybody will happily plan to. >> >> Well, I don't think the alternative is better, i.e. pretend policykit-1 >> is workable on !linux, even if that means it is less convenient. > > What do you mean by "better" exactly? > > Providing a -dev package doesn't mean pretending that it'll work. A lot > of packages only have a Recommends: policykit-1, i.e. AIUI they don't > expect the library to be always working. > > Really, is that really a lot of work to just drop that line and be done > with the discussion? > > I'm not even asking to do it for Buster, since there won't be any !linux > released arch.
It's quite simple really: If policykit-1 is not functional on !linux, there should be no policykit-1 package on !linux. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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