Forking a package like that is an overkill. Devuan does not have
resources enough to be that picky :(

On Sat, 2018-06-23 at 23:10 +0200, Michael Siegel wrote:
> I'd say it's a consistency issue. A package should never depend on
> anything that you can definitely not install (because it's not in the
> repos), should it?
>
> Maybe AntoFox's version was not yet available when ASCII was released
> or slipped through somehow. I don't know.
>
>
> msi
>
> Am 23.06.2018 um 22:53 schrieb Svante Signell:
> > Michael,
> >
> > Yes, it depends on policykit-1 | systemd.
> > But as you know both policykit-1 is available :)
> > And as I wrote, it works fine in my ASCII-mate installation!
> > Why bother about a second dependency on systemd?
> > AntoFox??
> >
> > On Sat, 2018-06-23 at 22:34 +0200, Michael Siegel wrote:
> > > I think that's because it depends on either systemd or
> > > consolekit.
> > > The modified package from AntoFox will most certainly have this
> > > dependency alternative removed and could therefore be integrated
> > > into
> > > Devuan without problems, I guess.
> > >
> > > msi
> > >
> > > Am 23.06.2018 um 22:21 schrieb Svante Signell:
> > > > Hi, that package is still banned. Why?
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 08:37 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > looking at https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/bannedpackages.txt I
> > > > > find
> > > > > that
> > > > > mate-power-manager is banned:
> > > > > ascii-backports,mate-power-manager
> > > > > ascii,mate-power-manager
> > > > > beowulf,mate-power-manager
> > > > > jessie,mate-power-manager
> > > > > unstable,mate-power-manager
> > > > >
> > > > > I have compiled and run 1.16.2-1+deb9u1 from stretch on ASCII
> > > > > and
> > > > > it
> > > > > works fine.
> > > > > So at least
> > > > > ascii-backports,mate-power-manager
> > > > > ascii,mate-power-manager
> > > > > should be removed.
> > > > >
> > > > > There is also a newer version 1.18.1-3~bpo9+1 from stretch-
> > > > > backports
> > > > > available but that version requires upgrading of mate-common
> > > > > and
> > > > > libmate-panel-applet-dev to 1.18.1-3~bpo9+1, which would need
> > > > > an
> > > > > upgrade of the whole mate-desktop-environment, and that is
> > > > > not
> > > > > possible
> > > > > currently. I have not investigated too deep into that matter
> > > > > though.
> > > >
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