On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 04:14:10PM +0100, Godefridus Daalmans wrote: > Hi, > > Jude Nelson posted an enormous rdepends list, of what packages would need to > be changed for Devuan Jessie,but from my own experimentation I concluded > that it wasn't so bad if we are willing to give up on a few other things: > > - Give up on GNOME for the moment > > - Accept that a few key packages may have to be kept somewhere *between* > Wheezy and Jessie for the moment, for example cups > > > Unfortunately I didn't accurately write down what I did myself.. so correct > me if I talk nonsense! > > but IIRC, I figured out that: > > - if I accepted an older version of CUPS (1.5.3-5+deb7u4 from Wheezy before > the dependency on libsystemd-daemon0) it would work, and also > > - there was some version of libudev0 or libudev1 (208-6??) which caused much > less hair-tearing than later versions. > Yes, I held that package. I think it's the only reason that xorg* depends on systemd.
> From comparison of https://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/cups and > https://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/cups : > > Jessie cups = version 1.7.5-10 currently but I downgraded it to > 1.5.3-5+deb7u4, the Wheezy version. > > The new cups depends on cups-daemon which depends on libsystemd0 (did they > combine libsystemd-daemon0 with the other ones into libsystemd0 or > something?) All the libsystemd-* packages got merged, because they'd multiplied beyond being manageable. cups can be rebuilt without much patching, I think-alpine has cups 2.x working nicely, and systemd does't even build here. Thanks, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
