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Author: Svante Signell
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Subject: [DNG] [Fwd: Re: policykit-1 | Requires libpam-systemd which can't be installed (#7)]
On Tue, 2016-06-21 at 18:42 +0200, ItchyPirate wrote:
> policykit-1 requires libpam-systemd which in turn requires systemd . Since
> systemd is currently not available in Devuan, that makes policykit-1
> impossible to install. This is a big problem for for those of us with HP
> printers because printer-driver-postscript-hp requires hplip (which itself
> provides printer drivers), which in turn requires policykit-1 .
> Devuan's package needs fixed to either remove the libpam-systemd requirement
> or to use an equivalent that doesn't depend on systemd.


Devuan already has a systemd-free policykit-1 package: 0.105-9+devuan1. Maybe
that version is too old compared to the Debian version. Of course it does also
depend on if you use the stable beta distribution (Devuan Jessie) or not.