Bug#964026: libelogind0: `Provides: libsystemd0` causes unrelated packages to fail to build (unmet dependencies)

[Mark Hindley]

Ansgar,

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 07:43:52PM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 17:45 +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
> > I am struggling to understand how libelogind0 came to be installed in the build
> > in the first place. Can you help me understand that?
> 
> No idea; apt's resolver is sometimes creative.  Other examples include
> [1], [2], [3].
> 
>   [1]: https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=hplip&ver=3.20.6%2Bdfsg0-1&arch=amd64
>   [2]: https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=gnome-applets&ver=3.37.2-1&arch=amd64
>   [3]: https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=kopete&ver=4%3A20.04.1-1&arch=amd64

Thanks. I have looked through these and, again, I can see no other regerences to
either elogind or systemd that might explain this.

However, all 4 examples you have given relate to builds for experimental. Is
that always the case? If so, I wonder if this is related to the presence in
experimental of libpam-elogind-compat?

Mark