elogind (Re: Bug#905388: Devuan has working packages, but they need work wrt) systemd

[Ian Jackson]

Mark Hindley writes ("Re: elogind (Re: Bug#905388: Devuan has working packages, but they need work wrt) systemd"):
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 06:18:28PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > That would make it fairly easy for people who mostly had an existing
> > buster install to try out the new elogind, before the dependencies are
> > updated.  Having tested it like that we can upload it to sid and start
> > asking for dependencies to be changed.
> 
> Yes, I thought of that approach. However, I was concerned that it might be a
> blocker to getting elogind accepted into Debian if I added it to the elogind
> sources.

Indeed, don't do that.  It would want to be a separate source package.

This separate source package could perhaps go to Debian experimental,
aka `rc-buggy'.

> But we could certainly roll a separate temporary compatibility package. I can
> have a look at it later.
> 
> And there is always equivs...

Yes.

Ian.

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