The future of elogind/libelogind0

[Mark Hindley]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 04:39:09PM +0200, Lorenzo wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:22:26 +0100
> Mark Hindley <mark at hindley.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 01:29:38AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > > Package: procps
> > > Version: 2:4.0.4-2
> > > Architecture: amd64
> > > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libproc2-0 (>=
> > > 2:4.0.4), »»» libsystemd0 (>= 254~rc1),
> > >     libtinfo6 (>= 6), init-system-helpers (>= 1.29~)
> > > 
> > > And this dependency is not satisfiable by current version of
> > > libelogind0;
> > 
> > I think we have to grasp this issue and consider the future of
> > elogind.
> 
> Can seatd replace elogind or some features (for example for desktop
> users) are missing?

Not directly. seatd doesn't do dbus, it is interfaced via libseat. So libseat
support has to be patched in. For example:

 https://git.devuan.org/devuan/xorg-server/src/branch/suites/unstable/debian/patches/0001-Support-libseat.patch

Mark