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<p>Hi Teddy,<br /><br />Thanks for your answer. I've never heard anything about the bug you mention, but it is good to know...<br /><br />What I tried to know with my first message is: Can mandos 1.6.4 be installed in a Debian's stable branch (wheezy) without systemd as in version 1.5.5 that exist in Debian's official repositories?<br /><br />In the 1.5.5 version, there's no need to install Systemd, and mandos works fine under sysvinit, but I would like to use the 1.6.4 version (or higher) if it is possible.<br /><br />The Systemd package for Debian Wheezy (stable) is not polished as in testing branch (called Jessie), or even sid branch, and I don't want to update the whole operating system to these versions only to have mandos running well using systemd.<br /><br />There's any chance to use latest stable version of mandos without using systemd and keeping the old (and good) sysvinit?<br /><br />Thank you once again in advance.</p>
<p>Greetings from Spain! :)<br />Olivier Molinete</p>
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<p>On 01/04/2014 22:41, Teddy Hogeborn wrote:</p>
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<pre>Nothing in Mandos itself depends on systemd. I put the package
dependency there late last year to fix Debian bug #731618
<<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/731618">http://bugs.debian.org/731618</a>>. The bug basically suggests depending
on a newer version of avahi-daemon than the one which exists in Debian
stable, but I wanted a way out for those running stable, so I added an
alternative dependency on systemd, since systemd was unaffected by the
bug. However, it turned out that we still needed a workaround, so three
weeks later I added some code to mandos.postinst to work around the same
issue. However, this made the package dependency redundant, but I did
not realize this until some time after the last release (1.6.4). I
strongly suspect we could just remove the dependency of mandos on
"avahi-daemon (>= 0.6.31-3) | systemd-sysv", but I have not tested this.
So, a few options for you:
1. Force installation despite the dependency.
2. Remove the dependency from the package prior to installation, perhaps
by opening a binary package, or by getting the source, patching it
and building your own package.
3. Force installation, and remove the dependency from
/var/lib/dpkg/status (this should be easier than editing a binary
package).
4. Wait for us to test, commit and release a version without this
dependency.</pre>
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<pre>Thank you!
/Teddy Hogeborn
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