Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: [email protected] Usertags: unblock
Please unblock package elogind. Version 241.1-1+debian1 of src:elogind has been in unstable for 11 days with no regressions reported. I am aware that the debdiff against testing (239.3+20190131-1+debian1) is significantly larger than you would normally want at this stage in the release cycle. However, I believe it is warranted and ask for your consideration. The benefits of migration centre around this version of elogind providing ABI compatibility between libelogind0 and libsystemd0 (see #923244). This means that packages compiled against libsystemd-dev headers work correctly with either libsystemd0 or libelogind0 runtime libraries. This is particularly important for policykit-1 authorization of many desktop functions (particularly restart, halt, suspend and for pkexec which is essential for synaptic) on non-systemd init installations. It is also worth pointing out that as elogind is derived from systemd which is alrelady at version 241-2 in testing. Therefore, much of the contained upstream code is already in included in buster. In addition, at the moment this is rather a niche area into which few 'regular' users will dip their toes; systemd is not currently uninstallable by APT once it is PID 1 and so elogind systems can only be installed from scratch and do not happen without considerable knowledge and care. Many thanks. I look forward to your thoughts. Mark -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.11 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
