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As I tried to report in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=935304#10 - but it seems to have been overlooked in the wilder scheme of things. If one is using something other than systemd as the init system under "Stretch" and use KDE Plasma as your Desktop Environment then you will find the latter gets removed during the upgrade as there is a dependency chain that DEMANDS systemd-sysv which is, of course, not satisfiable without systemd as PID 1. This is because libpam-systemd has been revised in "Buster" to "require" not only systemd but also systemd-sysv . I did experiment with building a systemd set of packages where the "require" from `libpam-systemd` for 'systemd-sysv' was reduced to a "suggest" specifically BECAUSE I WAS NOT INTENDING TO USE SYSTEMD AS MY INIT SYSTEM which was sufficient to get most of the KDE Plasma Desktop working - although with the breakage in the login system it wasn't possible to sleep/hibernate/shutdown from the DE. However a either a recent change - or a failed attempt to switch to elogind just as systemctl was updated {possibly https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=959920 applies} has broken my system and I cannot get several DEs to properly start up any more. I am aware that Devuan has a replacement elogind / libpam-elongind which does work to enable KDE to operate without libpam-systemd but this seems to have been rejected for Debian. As a consequence it looks like I will have to switch my main PC to Devuan "Beowulf" if I want to keep using KDE. Stephen Lyons --- System information. --- Architecture: Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 Debian Release: 10.3 500 stable security.debian.org 500 stable ftp.uk.debian.org 500 stable apt.spideroak.com --- Package information. --- Package's Depends field is empty. Package's Recommends field is empty. Package's Suggests field is empty. -- To mitigate against EFAIL attacks email messages will be handled only as plain text, please do not send emails in an HTML form to this recipient!
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