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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Andrew,

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 11:00:51PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote:
> > Hmmm, yes, conceivably.
> 
> Raising a bug...

Thanks.

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.

Needs more thought....

Mark

[1]  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=coreutils

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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