Devuan bug report logs - #904
coreutils: key package depends on libsystemd

Package: src:coreutils; Maintainer for src:coreutils is Devuan Developers <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>;

Reported by: Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>

Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:02:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version coreutils/9.7-1

Fixed in version 9.7-3devuan1

Done: dak@devuan.org

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From: Andreas Messer <andi@bastelmap.de>
To: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>, 904@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#904: coreutils: key package depends on
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Am Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 04:19:43PM +0100 schrieb Mark Hindley:
> I am pretty conflicted here. To me the real downside is that Debian's coreutils
> has over 450[1] bugs. If we fork the package, in effect we inherit
> responsibility for fixing them. That is pretty unattractive with the current
> person-power available.

Would we really need to fix bugs which are also present in Debian package.
As long as they are not fixed there, we're not worse than the Debian
version.

For me this dependency is very questionable too.

cheers,
Andreas

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Devuan bug report logs - #904 coreutils: key package depends on libsystemd

Devuan bug report logs - #904
coreutils: key package depends on libsystemd