On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 04:17:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 11:57:09AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 12:06:46AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > I was updating a chroot, and I got systemd pulled in automatically due > > > to the dh_installtmpfiles misc:Depends values. > > > > > > The order seems wrong, because if the system already uses systemd then > > > the systemd dependency does not need to be first, but if the system does > > > not use it (or does not need any init system at all), having it first > > > will pull it in, which in case of chroots, that's a significant size > > > and dependency increase. > > > > > > So the small implementations should go first, and the last one should > > > be systemd. > > > ... > > > > I am raising the severity due to the following: > > > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=gimp&ver=3.2.4-3 > > > > ... > > Unpacking libtss2-tcti-cmd0t64:amd64 (4.1.3-6) ... > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of > > libtss2-tcti-cmd0t64:amd64: > > libtss2-tcti-cmd0t64:amd64 depends on tpm-udev (>= 4.1.3-6); however: > > Package tpm-udev is not configured yet. > > libtss2-tcti-cmd0t64:amd64 depends on libtss2-mu-4.0.1-0t64 (>= 3.0.1); > > however: > > Package libtss2-mu-4.0.1-0t64:amd64 is not configured yet. > > > > dpkg: error processing package libtss2-tcti-cmd0t64:amd64 (--configure): > > ... > > > > > > What happened is that libselinux got recompiled with the new debhelper > > Depends: systemd | systemd-standalone-tmpfiles | systemd-tmpfiles,... > > resulting in a circular dependency > > libselinux1 -> systemd -> libmount1 -> libselinux1 > > CCing the libselinux maintainer, since one option that's separate from the > wider debhelper question might be for it to sed that dependency out of > misc:Depends. After all, it apparently didn't have any such dependency > before this change, >...
The postinst didn't call systemd-tmpfiles unconditionally before. See #1140654 for background why your suggestion is not an option. cu Adrian
