Control: severity -1 serious Justification: in the release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release
On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 08:19:48AM +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > We do not have a problem with "Provides: systemd" in "systemctl" package on > systems where "systemd" is installed by default because admins knowingly > install "systemctl" in order to replace "systemd". > > We do not have a problem with "Provides: systemd" in "systemctl" package on > systems where "systemctl" is installed from scratch to manage services > without systemd hence avoiding installation of "systemd". > > I can't see where we would have a problem at all so I'll downgrade severity > once again. > This use of Provides is not acceptable. The systemctl package does not in any way provide the same functionality / interfaces as the systemd package, and as such it does not get to pretend that it does and cause problems to other packages. Please stop severity ping-pong on this. Cheers, Julien
