The Debian technical committee vote concludes

Posted Feb 11, 2014 19:46 UTC (Tue) by dag- (guest, #30207)
In reply to: The Debian technical committee vote concludes by dfsmith
Parent article: The Debian technical committee vote concludes

Reading your list of dependencies, my conclusion is quite the opposite of what you are implying.

Only systemd understands ACLs (libacl), integrates with the auditing framework (libaudit), can use Linux/POSIX capabilities (libcap), integrates with crypted block devices (libcryptsetup), integrates with the recent kernel module interface (libkmod), integrates with PAM (libpam), integrates with udev (libudev), integrates with tcp_wrappers (libwrap).

This is all a good thing, since all of the above means richness and a full-featured init/xinet-system. What's worrying is that upstart doesn't seem to have the same integration. For sysvinit the above complexity (when available) is moved to the scripts on a case-by-case basis, with no consistency at all.

What I do not understand is why systemd is lacking SELinux support (libselinux/libsepol) maybe because it was disabled on build ?

The Debian technical committee vote concludes

Posted Feb 11, 2014 20:18 UTC (Tue) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

My fedora 19 system has systemd depending on libselinux. The lack of dep in the packaging could be due to an implicit depchain? Maybe something else in the deplist already pulls in selinux so the debian packaging didn't make it explicit?