On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 12:52:31PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > autopkgtest-build-podman's failure is due to the issue reported in [1], i.e. > the Debian setup of podman requires `dbus-user-session`, but none of the > podman-related packages Depends on it.
podman may not Depend on dbus-user-session, but it Recommends it. I believe that is because podman may be used in a number of different configurations some of which may require dbus-user-session, while others may not. Per Policy ยง 7.2, "The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations". Basically, if you explicitly decide to not install a Recommends, it is expected that certain configurations or functionalities of the package break. Therefore I don't see how this is a bug, rather than a misconfiguration. Am I missing something? Thanks, Faidon
