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Update dependencies to the preferred form

Simon McVittie requested to merge smcv/rtkit-branches:modernize-dependencies into master

  • d/control: Depend on polkitd | policykit-1

    This allows new installations to install rtkit without having to install pkexec or the legacy polkitd-pkla.

    Closes: #1020598, #1025609

  • d/control: Depend on default-dbus-system-bus | dbus-system-bus

    This allows systems that use dbus-broker to install rtkit without also installing dbus (the reference dbus-daemon).

    Closes: #1023850

The first commit could use plain polkitd instead of polkitd | policykit-1 if backports are uninteresting for this package, but I went for a conservative approach in this MR.

Now that I've done a team upload of malcontent, this is one of only 3 source packages needing updates similar to the first commit here to be able to install Debian 12 GNOME without the policykit-1 transitional package (which I'll test when I've prepared MRs for colord and synaptic).

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