Bug#940681: elogind: Should only build-depend on libseccomp-dev on architectures supporting it

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de
Thu Sep 19 00:13:20 BST 2019


Source: elogind
Severity: normal

Hello!

Currently, elogind unconditionally build-depends on libseccomp-dev despite the fact
that not all supported architectures in Debian currently support libseccomp [1].

This results elogind being BD-Uninstallable on a couple of architectures [2] where
the original systemd code builds fine [3].

Thus, could you modify your debian/control such that it adopts what systemd does
in this regard and if necessary make the necessary changes to elogind so it can
be built on architectures without libseccomp support?

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/elogind/blob/debian/debian/control#L23
> [2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=elogind&suite=sid
> [3] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=systemd&suite=sid
> [4] https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/blob/master/debian/control#L48

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