Am 31.03.2017 um 01:16 schrieb Arthur Gautier: > Package: libsystemd-dev > Version: 232-22 > Severity: normal > > Dear maintainer, > > One should be able to install libsystemd and libsystemd-dev without having > systemd. > > When using a build machine with sysvinit instead of systemd, we can't build > packages depending on libsystemd-dev without installing first systemd.
That shouldn't be a huge issue,fwiw. systemd itself doesn't change your
init system.
> libsystemd-dev is only headers for the library and should not depend
> on the binary itself. I believe this is an error. Would it be possible
> to avoid such dependency?
>
> I believe it to be caused by files shipped with libsystemd-dev in the
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/systemd/tests/ directory, some of them depends on
> libsystemd-shared.so which is shipped by systemd package.
Your analysis seems correct.
Imo the only clean solution is to split out the tests into a separate
package systemd-tests, which then can have a strictly versioned
dependency on systemd (= ${binary:Version})
Martin wasn't overly happy with adding yet another binary, but another
benefit would be that the 13M of test executables wouldn't be pulled in
when installing libsystemd-dev.
Given that we are in freeze, this probably something for buster though.
Regards,
Michael
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