Control: close -1 On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 23:36:51 +0100 bi...@debian.org wrote: > Source: dnf > Version: 4.14.0-4.1 > Severity: normal > User: pkg-systemd-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: systemd-dev > > Hi, > > your package dnf declares a Build-Depends on systemd and/or udev. > > In most cases, this build dependency is added to get the paths that > are defined in udev.pc or systemd.pc (via pkgconfig). > > Since systemd_253-2 [1], these two pkgconfig files have been split > into a separate package named systemd-dev. This package is arch:all, > so even available on non-Linux architectures, which will simplify the > installation of upstream provided service files / udev rules. > > To not make existing source packages FTBFS, the systemd and udev > package have a Depends: systemd-dev. This dependency will be removed > at some point though before trixie is released. Once this happens, > this issue will be bumped to RC. > > Please update your build dependencies accordingly at your earliest > convenience. > > If all you need is the systemd.pc or udev.pc pkgconfig file, please > replace any systemd or udev Build-Depends with systemd-dev. In most > cases that should be sufficient. If your package needs further > resources from systemd or udev to build successfully, it's fine to > keep those Build-Depends in addition to systemd-dev. > > To ease stable backports, a version of systemd with those changes is > provided via bookworm-backports. > > In case you have further questions, please contact the systemd team > at <pkg-systemd-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org>. > > On behalf of the systemd team, Michael
DNF does not use systemd.pc, it uses systemd-tmpfiles during tests so that's probably why the build dep was added -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
