Bug#968379: wireshark-common: versioned dependency on libsystemd0 breaks installability with elogind

Mark Hindley mark at hindley.org.uk
Fri Aug 14 10:03:14 BST 2020


Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/elogind/elogind/issues/170

Balint and Thorsten,

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 08:43:31AM +0200, Balint Reczey wrote:

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> libelogind0 provides only libsystemd0 (= 243.7) which I understand
> since keeping up with systemd upstream is hard, but other packages
> will pick up versioned dependency on later libsystemd0 like wireshark
> so eventually moving the provided version will be needed. IMO the most
> forward-proof direction is providing newer libsystemd0 versions in
> libelogind0 thus I'm reassigning the bug.

Thanks for this. We currently package the latest version of elogind that is
available upstream.

I have enquired what plans there are for a newer version.

Mark



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