On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 01:27:50 +0100 Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > Control: tags -1 +patch > > > pulseaudio has a hard dependency on libpam-systemd. Violates "Depends: > > This declares an absolute dependcy... > > > Fix: change Depends: libpam-systemd to Recommends: libpam-systemd > > It already _is_ "Recommends". > > I guess the submitter got confused by apt's handling which indeed acts as if > the dependency was absolute if there's any way to satisfy the Recommends, > and failing with a wrong message if there's a hold or pin. > > But, since recently there's a way: > Change: > Recommends: libpam-systemd > to > Recommends: default-logind | logind > > which is satisfied by libpam-systemd and libpam-elogind. It'd be nice if it > could apply this. >
Pulseaudio needs not only logind for user tracking (which could be replaced by other logind), but right now requires it for actually starting up (it requires systemd --user). Please help https://salsa.debian.org/pulseaudio-team/pulseaudio/merge_requests/6 get merged and then we can do this. Saludos