Autor: Andreas Messer Data: A: Mark Hindley CC: 355 Assumpte: [devuan-dev] bug#355: apt: Unexpected linkage dependency on
libsystemd
Mark,
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:02:20PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 19:50:34 +0200 Andreas Messer <andi@???> wrote:
> > Package: apt
> > Version: 1.8.2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > I observed a linkage dependency on libsystemd. This was unexpected for me
> > since I wouldn't expect a package manager depend on it. A package manager should
> > be as lean as possible.
>
> Andreas,
>
> Thanks for this.
>
> You are quite right that this dependency would be much better avoided.
>
> I am interested in us fixing this in ceres/chimaera.
>
> I know you have patched version 1.8 to remove libsystemd0. Would you care to
> update that for the current ceres/chimaera version 2.0.1? We can then look at
> including it in devuan-packages.
Sorry, missed that mail. Yes I can give it a try tomorrow.