Bug#934491: libelogind0: failing to switch from systemd to sysvinit-core/elogind results in libsystemd.so.0 disappearing

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Simon McVittie wrote:

> I still wonder whether apt/dpkg are being forced into this by libelogind0
> using Conflicts rather than Breaks - Conflicts is a stronger relationship

AFAICT file-level conflicts still need Provides+Conflicts+Replaces,
and these are what we have here.

(Otherwise, we could just have called Breaks Conflicts and dropped
the original latter.)

> That
> means there's an unavoidable window during which libsystemd0 no longer
> provides libsystemd.so.0, but libelogind0 doesn't provide it yet.

Sure, but that’s business as usual in many cases.

The dependency of apt on libsystemd.so.0 is unfortunate, but
apparently easy to fix.

bye,
//mirabilos
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