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and subject line Re: bug#877: diffoscope: Installing diffoscope suggests installing systemd
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877: https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=877
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Package: diffoscope
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

When trying to `apt-get install diffoscope`, I get 'systemd' as a
recommended package. I suspect recommending systemd is not acceptable
in Devuan. :)


Have a lovely day!
Alex


Here's what I see:

$ sudo apt-get install diffoscope
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
libept1.6.0t64
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
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android-libart android-libbacktrace android-libbase android-libcutils
android-liblog android-libnativebridge android-libnativeloader android-libutils
android-libziparchive apksigcopier apksigner apktool arj attr augeas-lenses
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coreboot-utils cramfsswap db-util db5.3-util default-jdk-headless
device-tree-compiler dexdump diffoscope-minimal dmeventd docx2txt enjarify evince
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fp-compiler-3.2.2 fp-units-rtl-3.2.2 fp-utils fp-utils-3.2.2 gawk gdal-data
gdal-plugins gdisk genisoimage gfortran gfortran-14 gfortran-14-x86-64-linux-gnu
gfortran-x86-64-linux-gnu ghc giflib-tools gnome-desktop3-data gnumeric
gnumeric-common gnumeric-doc graphviz hdf5-tools hfsplus html2text
ibverbs-providers icoutils ipxe-qemu java-wrappers jsbeautifier junit ldmtool ledit
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systemd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
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android-liblog android-libnativebridge android-libnativeloader android-libutils
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-- System Information:
Distributor ID:    Devuan
Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur/ceres)
Release:    6
Codename:    excalibur ceres
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 6.12.13-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages diffoscope depends on:
pn diffoscope-minimal <none>

Versions of packages diffoscope recommends:
ii  7zip                                           24.09+dfsg-4
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pn  abootimg                                       <none>
ii  acl                                            2.3.2-2+b1
pn  androguard                                     <none>
pn  apksigcopier                                   <none>
pn  apksigner                                      <none>
pn  apktool                                        <none>
pn  binutils-multiarch                             <none>
ii  bzip2                                          1.0.8-6
pn  caca-utils                                     <none>
ii  colord                                         1.4.7-1devuan1+b1
pn  coreboot-utils                                 <none>
pn  db-util                                        <none>
pn  default-jdk-headless | default-jdk | java-sdk  <none>
pn  device-tree-compiler                           <none>
pn  dexdump                                        <none>
pn  docx2txt                                       <none>
ii  e2fsprogs                                      1.47.2-1
pn  enjarify                                       <none>
pn  ffmpeg                                         <none>
pn  fontforge-extras                               <none>
pn  fonttools                                      <none>
pn  fp-utils                                       <none>
pn  genisoimage                                    <none>
ii  gettext                                        0.23.1-1
pn  ghc                                            <none>
ii  ghostscript                                    10.04.0~dfsg-2+b1
pn  giflib-tools                                   <none>
pn  gnumeric                                       <none>
ii  gnupg-utils                                    2.2.46-1+b1
ii  gpg                                            2.2.46-1+b1
pn  hdf5-tools                                     <none>
pn  html2text                                      <none>
ii  imagemagick                                    8:7.1.1.43+dfsg1-1
ii  imagemagick-7.q16 [imagemagick]                8:7.1.1.43+dfsg1-1
pn  jsbeautifier                                   <none>
pn  libarchive-tools                               <none>
pn  libxmlb-utils                                  <none>
pn  llvm                                           <none>
pn  lz4                                            <none>
ii  lzip                                           1.25-1
pn  mono-utils                                     <none>
pn  ocaml-nox                                      <none>
pn  odt2txt                                        <none>
pn  oggvideotools                                  <none>
ii  openssh-client                                 1:9.9p1-3
ii  openssl                                        3.4.1-1
ii  perl                                           5.40.0-8
pn  pgpdump                                        <none>
ii  poppler-utils                                  25.01.0-4
pn  procyon-decompiler                             <none>
pn  python3-argcomplete                            <none>
pn  python3-binwalk                                <none>
ii  python3-debian                                 0.1.49
pn  python3-defusedxml                             <none>
pn  python3-guestfs                                <none>
pn  python3-jsondiff                               <none>
pn  python3-pdfminer                               <none>
pn  python3-progressbar                            <none>
ii  python3-pypdf                                  4.3.1-1
pn  python3-pyxattr                                <none>
pn  python3-rpm                                    <none>
pn  python3-tlsh                                   <none>
pn  r-base-core                                    <none>
pn  radare2                                        <none>
pn  rpm2cpio                                       <none>
pn  sng                                            <none>
pn  sqlite3                                        <none>
pn  squashfs-tools                                 <none>
pn  systemd-ukify                                  <none>
pn  tcpdump                                        <none>
pn  u-boot-tools                                   <none>
ii  unzip                                          6.0-28
pn  wabt                                           <none>
pn  xmlbeans                                       <none>
pn  xxd                                            <none>
ii  xz-utils                                       5.6.3-1+b1
ii  zip                                            3.0-14
ii  zstd                                           1.5.6+dfsg-2

Versions of packages diffoscope suggests:
ii libjs-jquery 3.6.1+dfsg+~3.5.14-1
Alejandro,

Thanks for this.

As has already been mentioned, Devuan doesn't fork diffoscope and uses Debian's
packages directly without recompilation. This explains why the recommendation is
still present. Of course systemd itself is not available in Devuan[1], so apt
simply ignores the recommendation for an unavailable package.

Forking diffoscope (and the on-going maintenance that incurs) just to remove
this sort of cruft is not a useful use of our limited resources IMO.

If you can find breakage caused by the Recommends, please feel free to reopen
and provide details.

Mark

[1] https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html??c=package&q=systemd