Package: udisks2 Version: 2.6.5-2 Severity: important udisks2 is a dependency of multiple Desktop Environments (through plasma-workspace, kde-plasma-workshop, gvfs-daemons) and pulls mdadm through libblockdev-mdraid2 dependencies. mdadm is the full-fledged daemon that handles MD RAID arrays, and I don't think it is useful or necessary in all Desktop Environments.
Please make sure the mdraid2 libblockdev plugin is not _required_ by udisks2 core. Cheers, OdyX -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_CH:fr (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages udisks2 depends on: ii dbus 1.11.16+really1.10.22-1 ii init-system-helpers 1.49 ii libacl1 2.2.52-3+b1 ii libatasmart4 0.19-4+b1 ii libc6 2.24-17 ii libglib2.0-0 2.53.6-1 ii libgudev-1.0-0 230-3 ii libpam-systemd 234-2.3 ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.105-18 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-18 ii libsystemd0 234-2.3 pn libudisks2-0 <none> ii parted 3.2-17 ii udev 234-2.3 Versions of packages udisks2 recommends: ii dosfstools 4.1-1 ii eject 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.2 ii exfat-utils 1.2.7-1 ii gdisk 1.0.1-1 ii ntfs-3g 1:2016.2.22AR.2-2 ii policykit-1 0.105-18 Versions of packages udisks2 suggests: pn btrfs-progs | btrfs-tools <none> ii cryptsetup-bin 2:1.7.3-4 pn mdadm <none> ii reiserfsprogs 1:3.6.25-7 ii xfsprogs 4.9.0+nmu1 -- no debconf information