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. 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. A patch like: diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index aabe69e13401e..f1b76684cc765 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -324,6 +324,7 @@ override_dh_installinit: # https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=753589 override_dh_shlibdeps: dh_shlibdeps -psystemd -- -dPre-Depends -edebian/systemd/bin/systemctl -dDepends + dh_shlibdeps -plibsystemd-dev -Xtests dh_shlibdeps --remaining-packages -Lsystemd override_dh_makeshlibs: Would ignore the directory from being scanned by dh_shlibdeps. One would not be able to launch tests without systemd, I'm not sure this is okay or not. Let me know what you think, Thank you, -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.10.0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
