[chiark.chat] Re: RFH: sysvinit etc. in Debian

[Mark Hindley]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 12:03:30PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Mark Hindley writes ("Re: [chiark.chat] Re: RFH: sysvinit etc. in Debian"):
> > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 09:28:12AM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
> > > I'll report back once I have tested again with the compat package.
> > 
> > I have put together libpam-elogind-compat. The sources are available from
> > https://hindley.org.uk/~mark/debian/libpam-elogind-compat_1.0.dsc. Have targeted
> > experimental.
> > 
> > I had to make one small change to libpam-elogind so it no longer Breaks:
> > libpam-systemd otherwise the are not co-installable.
> 
> Some folks on d-devel reckoned they should conflict, but I confess I
> didn't really find the reasoning 100% convincing.

Yes, I saw you mentioned that in your summary.

And it would stop the compat package being installable.
 
> > This is in my Debian specific branch at
> > https://git.devuan.org/LeePen/elogind/tree/debian_WIP
> > 
> > Both could do with review and testing.
> 
> I'll try to take a look (and at the elogind package) RSN.

Thanks

Mark