Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi,
I'd like to see the priority of libpam-systemd bumped from optional to standard. The recent changes in xserver-xorg make it possible to run X without root privileges [1], which is awesome! This requires a proper logind session though, for which libpam-systemd needs to be installed (and enabled). While xserver-xorg-core added a Recommends on libpam-systemd, not everyone has Recommends enable. X is also not the only reason, why one want libpam-systemd installed. E.g. for SSH logins you also want proper logind sessions. The only environment where you don't want/need libpam-systemd is on a buildd or very specialised, minimal systems. I think prio:standard would fit that quite well. We also already have dbus (a dependency of libpam-systemd) already in prio:standard, libpam-rutime is prio:required. So no additional dependencies would be necessary. I've CCed debian-b...@lists.debian.org, debian-x@lists.debian.org and pkg-systemd-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org . Please CC them on replies. I especially would like to see an ACK from KiBi/debian-boot before the prio is bumped. Cheers, Michael [1] https://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xorg-server/news/20150821T010032Z.html [2] https://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xorg-server/news/20151027T170547Z.html
