Subject: network-manager doesn't install, depends on libpam-systemd

From: John Franklin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:24:25 -0400

Package: network-manager
Source: network-manager
Version: 1.6.2-3
Severity: serious

Dear Maintainer,

Attempting to install network-manager from ascii fails because it
depends on libpam-systemd, and libpam-systemd requires systemd.

root@devuan:~# apt-get install network-manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 network-manager : Depends: libpam-systemd but it is not going to be
 installed
 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

root@devuan:~# apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.6.2-3
  Version table:
     1.6.2-3 500
        500 http://us.mirror.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://packages.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64 Packages

root@devuan:~# apt-cache policy libpam-systemd
libpam-systemd:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 232-25+deb9u1
  Version table:
     232-25+deb9u1 500
        500 http://us.mirror.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://packages.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64 Packages

root@devuan:~# apt-get install libpam-systemd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libpam-systemd : Depends: systemd (= 232-25+deb9u1) but it is not
installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 2.0 (ascii)
Release:	2.0
Codename:	ascii

Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (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)