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Devuan bug report logs - #877
diffoscope: Installing diffoscope suggests installing systemd

Package: diffoscope; Maintainer for diffoscope is (unknown); Source for diffoscope is src:diffoscope.

Reported by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>

Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:38:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>, 877-done@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: bug#877: diffoscope: Installing diffoscope suggests installing
 systemd
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Alejandro,

Thanks for this.

As has already been mentioned, Devuan doesn't fork diffoscope and uses Debian's
packages directly without recompilation. This explains why the recommendation is
still present. Of course systemd itself is not available in Devuan[1], so apt
simply ignores the recommendation for an unavailable package.

Forking diffoscope (and the on-going maintenance that incurs) just to remove
this sort of cruft is not a useful use of our limited resources IMO.

If you can find breakage caused by the Recommends, please feel free to reopen
and provide details.

Mark

[1]  https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html??c=package&q=systemd

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