Subject: bug#506 closed by Andreas Messer <[email-masked]> (libvirt-daemon-system should not depend on policykit-1)

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Subject: libvirt-daemon-system should not depend on policykit-1
From: Andreas Messer <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 20:55:23 +0200

Package: libvirt-daemon-system
Version: 6.5.0-1+devuan3

Found this during house-keeping. Was already addressed by 
Thierry B. a while ago.

Andreas
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Subject: libvirt-daemon-system should not depend on policykit-1
From: "Thierry B." <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:41:11 +0200

Package: libvirt-daemon-system
Version: 6.5.0-1
Severity: wishlist

This is a follow-up to Debian bugs reports :

- #897936: libvirt-daemon-system should not depend on policykit-1
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897936

and

- #768376: libvirt-daemon-system: Please downgrade policykit-1
dependency to recommends
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768376

As you can see in these Debian reports, Debian will doing nothing, so
this i a feature request to fork this package to downgrade "policykit-1"
from Depends tp Recommends