Control: reopen -1 Control: severity -1 important On Sat, 2026-07-11 at 10:47:02 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the debhelper package: > > #1140305: debhelper: misc:Depends pulls systemd on chroots
> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:45:47 +0000 > From: Debian FTP Masters <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Bug#1140305: fixed in libselinux 3.11-2 > Reply-To: Christian Göttsche <[email protected]> > Message-Id: <[email protected]> This bug cannot be fixed from within libselinux. > Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:06:46 +0200 > From: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: debhelper: misc:Depends pulls systemd on chroots > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Package: debhelper > Version: 14.1 > Severity: important > I was updating a chroot, and I got systemd pulled in automatically due > to the dh_installtmpfiles misc:Depends values. > > The order seems wrong, because if the system already uses systemd then > the systemd dependency does not need to be first, but if the system does > not use it (or does not need any init system at all), having it first > will pull it in, which in case of chroots, that's a significant size > and dependency increase. > > So the small implementations should go first, and the last one should > be systemd. > > This applies as well to dh_installsysusers. Thanks, Guillem
