On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:27:20 -0400 Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: systemd-shim > Version: 10-3 > Severity: normal > User: pkg-systemd-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: shim-patches-removal > > Hello Debian systemd-shim Maintainers, > > The Debian systemd package is currently carrying two debian-specific patches > to enable usage of systemd-shim on Debian systems. In particular, we patch > some code to continue even if /run/systemd/machines/ and > /run/systemd/machines/ > don't exist[1][2]. > These two patches could be avoided if systemd-shim would create the relevant > directories during early boot (sometime in rcS). Therefore we would like for > systemd-shim to provide these directories so we can drop these patches. > If you ship such a SysV init script, please make sure to mask that, so it is > not accidentally run when systemd is the active PID 1 (assuming the SysV init > script is called /etc/init.d/systemd-shim, the symlink would be > /lib/systemd/system/systemd-shim.service → /dev/null). > > We intend to drop the patches before buster is released in the not too distant > future. When we do that, we will bump the severity of this bug report to > serious. > > [1] > https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/blob/debian/238-1/debian/patches/debian/Start-logind-on-demand-via-libpam-systemd.patch > [2] > https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/blob/debian/238-1/debian/patches/debian/Make-sd_login_monitor_new-work-for-logind-without-sy.patch > > Saludos, > Felipe Sateler > > [...]
Hi, I have marked this (and #901404) as buster-will-remove bugs because I believe we will remove this package if these RC bugs are not fixed in time for buster. CC'ing Ian, because he is the last person to have uploaded this package (it is currently orphaned AFAICT). Thanks, ~Niels
