On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 at 10:04, Jan Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Luca, > > Am 26.06.23 um 00:27 schrieb [email protected]: > > ps-watcher has been flagged by Lintian as shipping a sysv-init script > > without a corresponding systemd unit file. The default init system in > > Debian is systemd, and so far this worked because a transitional > > sysv-init-to-unit generator was shipped by systemd. This is in the > > process of being deprecated and will be removed by the time Trixie > > ships, so the remaining packages that ship init scripts without > > systemd units will stop working. > > The package is shipping /usr/lib/systemd/system/ps-watcher.service as > you can see at https://packages.debian.org/trixie/all/ps-watcher/filelist. > > > There are various advantages to using native units, for example the > > legacy generator cannot tell the different between a oneshot service > > and a long running daemon. Also, sanboxing and security features > > become available for services. For more information, consult the > > systemd documentation: > > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html > > > > You can find the Lintian warning here: > > > > https://lintian.debian.org/sources/ps-watcher > > This gives a 404 and https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?packages=ps-watcher > also doesn't have this lintian warning listed. > > So if you are fine with it, I would go ahead and close the bug as false > positive.
Yeah no problem, these were all opened long ago so they could have been false positives, or fixed since. Thanks for looking into it
