Hi,

Florian Zieboll writes:

> On Sun, 28 May 2017 09:17:05 -0400
> Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
>
>> The only one I have an idea what it's for is sane-utils.  Presumably
>> access to scanners.
>
> As mentioned on this list some days ago, sane-utils is not necessary to
> run a local scanner. It provides saned to remotely access a local
> scanner. I just had a look: it also includes the commands scanimage and
> sane-find-scanner (which probably would work perfectly fine with a
> broken libsystemd0 dependency). So the vast majority of users won't
> need it. IIRC, a sane developer had replied to that thread and said
> that also saned just checks for the existence of libsystemd0 but does
> not need it at all. So the "dependency" is null and could be removed.

You remember correctly ;-)

It's not a "dependency", it's a compile-time option.  To get rid of the
Depends:, you will need to drop libsystemd-dev (and maybe dh-systemd)
from the debian/control file and rebuild the package.  That's all.

Hope this helps,
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