Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:

[ policykit-1 and udisks2 without hard systemd dependency ]

> > I publish .deb packages for them (although not for all arches yet).
>
> What is the reason why these modifications are not in Debian proper ?

They are basically a downgrade to the last version before it
became mandatory in Debian, and, from there on, unmaintained,
although they still work with the corresponding (same-source)
library packages from sid; it’s just the main binary package
which needed minor changes, plus I renamed it.

As such, I don’t know if they can coexist easily, or are, in
the current form, maintainable. I’ve also not looked at security.

I also don’t know if this feat can be reproduced with later
versions of these packages. I’m only very vaguely aware that
they do something with GUI sudo-ish things (policykit) and
GUI file manager disc mounting (udisks), and use them only
because they’re hard dependencies of things like KDE and
this was the easiest way to keep it installable, although
I know of others using it and they reported no trouble.

The contents of the “replaced” packages is not large:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/alpha/policykit-1/filelist
https://packages.debian.org/sid/alpha/udisks2/filelist

For the interested parties:

http://www.mirbsd.org/~tg/Debs/dists/jessie/wtf/Pkgs/policykit-1/
http://www.mirbsd.org/~tg/Debs/dists/jessie/wtf/Pkgs/udisks2/

bye,
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