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: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: Andreas Messer <andi@bastelmap.de>
Cc: Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>, 904@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: bug#904: coreutils: key package depends on libsystemd
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 05:39:50PM +0200, Andreas Messer wrote:
> 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.

True, but it is a measure that the package is in poor state that so many bugs
exist and expected Debian fixes seem optimistic.

> For me this dependency is very questionable too.

Yes, and for me.

I am having a quick look how easy it might be. There is no Debian VCS
repository, which is also unhelpful. Having to resort to gbp-import-dsc.

Mark

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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