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Re: Bug#1132561: libmount1-udeb: non-installable, depends on non-udeb libsystemd0

From	Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.boot
Subject	Re: Bug#1132561: libmount1-udeb: non-installable, depends on non-udeb libsystemd0
Date	2026-04-03 14:20 +0200
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Chris Hofstaedtler, le ven. 03 avril 2026 12:04:01 +0200, a ecrit:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 02:23:13AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (2026-04-03):
> > > Your libmount1-udeb binary package picked up a dependency on libsystemd0,
> > > making it non-installable. Known-OK version includes 2.41.3-4. Known-KO
> > > version seems to include 2.42~rc2-1 (which was published to experimental,
> > > but that's currently not being tracked/combined with unstable to check
> > > udeb installability there unfortunately).
> > 
> > A very quick investigation suggests this might be due to upstream commit
> > 8bdc2546d38979ca65fa9bfd1bbd6e7b985c69db (first published via the
> > upstream/2.42_rc1 tag):
> > 
> >   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?h=8bdc2546d38979ca65fa9bfd1bbd6e7b985c69db
> > 
> > That'd be the sd_* addition to the libmount/ subtree, resulting in the
> > following symbols being required by libmount.so.1.1.0 now (in other words,
> > definitely not a spurious dependency):
> > 
> >     U sd_device_get_property_value@LIBSYSTEMD_240
> >     U sd_device_new_from_devname@LIBSYSTEMD_251
> >     U sd_device_unref@LIBSYSTEMD_240
> > 
> > I'm not sure how to best address this.
> 
> Me neither. I see the new symbols are used in an #ifdef 
> USE_LIBMOUNT_UDEV_SUPPORT. Now I imagine the installer wants to use 
> udev support, but I don't know.
> If these symbols are part of the udev API, are they available in 
> some udev udeb? If not, maybe they should be?

We could as well just add a libsystemd1-udeb? I guess more and more
software will sooner or later use libsystemd.

Samuel

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