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>
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Alejandro,

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 11:06:47AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Maybe more concerning than the recommended package, are the ones that
> will be installed.  I don't know if those are okay.  Could you please
> confirm?
> 
> 	systemd-boot-efi systemd-repart systemd-ukify

A quick look indicated diffoscope Recommends systemd-ukify which then Recommends
the other 2.

I have no in-depth experience of any. You can always remove them or even prevent
apt installing them in the first with the --no-install-recommends flag.

I don't see anything to suggest they are at odds with Devuan's primary purpose
of avoiding systemd as PID1.

HTH.

Mark

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