Subject: evince seems to require systemd to build

From: Jeffrey Cliff <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 13:06:24 -0600

Package: evince
Version: 48.0-1
Severity: minor
Tags: ftbfs
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email-masked]
User: [email-masked]
Usertags: amd64

what i tried to do

apt-src install evince

result

Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in evince-48.0
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: unmet build dependencies: dh-sequence-gir
gobject-introspection (>= 1.0) gsettings-desktop-schemas-dev gi-docgen
(>= 2021.1) itstool libarchive-dev (>= 3.6.0) libdjvulibre-dev (>=
3.5.22) libgail-3-dev (>= 3.0.2) libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev (>= 2.40)
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-doc libgirepository1.0-dev (>= 1.0) libglib2.0-doc
libgnome-desktop-3-dev libgspell-1-dev (>= 1.6.0)
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libgtk-3-dev (>=
3.22.0) libgtk-3-doc libgxps-dev (>= 0.2.1) libhandy-1-dev (>= 1.5.90)
libkpathsea-dev libpango1.0-doc libpoppler-glib-dev (>= 22.05)
libsecret-1-dev (>= 0.5) libspectre-dev (>= 0.2.0) libsynctex-dev
libtiff-dev (>= 4)
...
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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:
 libelogind-compat : Conflicts: libsystemd0

whatever evince 's development requirement is... shouldn't involve
systemd, if evince is installed and libsystemd0 isn't ... right?  or
am I missing something

libsystemd0:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 257.7-1
evince:
  Installed: 48.0-1
  Candidate: 48.0-1

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:    Devuan
Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur/ceres)
Release:    6
Codename:    excalibur ceres
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 6.12.0-gnulibre-gnm-eva2 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-5
ii  evince-common                                48.0-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    48.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0t64                               2.56.2-1
ii  libc6                                        2.41-9
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.18.4-1+b1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.18.4-1+b1
ii  libevdocument3-4t64                          48.0-1
ii  libevview3-3t64                              48.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                          2.42.12+dfsg-3
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.84.3-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-20t64                     44.3-3
ii  libgtk-3-0t64                                3.24.49-3
ii  libhandy-1-0                                 1.8.3-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.56.3-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.56.3-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.21.7-1
ii  shared-mime-info                             2.4-5+b2

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-x11 [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.16.2-2devuan2

Versions of packages evince suggests:
ii  gvfs             1.57.2-2
pn  nautilus-sendto  <none>
ii  poppler-data     0.4.12-1
pn  unrar            <none>

-- no debconf information

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:56:13 +0100

Jeffrey,

>  libelogind-compat : Conflicts: libsystemd0

If you want to build unforked Debian packages that build-depend on
libsystemd-dev on a system using libelogind-compat, you have to use a build
chroot. See /usr/share/doc/libelogind-compat/README.Debian

Mark