Your message dated Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:37:14 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#1039198: ships sysv-init script without systemd unit
has caused the Debian Bug report #1039198,
regarding fetchmail: ships sysv-init script without systemd unit
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Package: fetchmail
Severity: important
User: [email protected]
Usertags: missing-systemd-service
Dear Maintainer(s),
fetchmail 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.
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/fetchmail
In case this is a false positive, please add a Lintian override to
silence it and then close this bug.
Thanks!
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 10:49:53AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 at 08:10, Andrew Bower <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 04:24:56PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > As already mentioned in the original bug report, if your package is
> > > not intended to work as a systemd service or under systemd at all,
> > > please feel free to downgrade or close+wontifx or anything else as you
> > > see fit. The severity raising is not intended to make anyone support
> > > scenarios they don't wish to support, but simply to ensure attention
> > > is given to the issue, even if just to close+wontfix.
> >
> > It looks like this package ships a user unit and the disabled-by-default
> > initscript is a fallback global service so I think the maintainer could
> > close this.
> >
> > > Also the bugs
> > > were opened based on Lintian reports, and it is possible that there
> > > might be false positives.
> >
> > Luca, this package already has a lintian override - does your script not
> > pick up on that?
> >
> > Thanks, hope this helps!
>
> Sorry, I did not rerun any script, these bugs were opened a long long
> time ago, I simply followed up on the ones that are still open. There
> are too many to manually check one by one if they are still relevant,
> so if something changed in the meanwhile by all means, please close
> it/them. Thanks.
Thanks, I'm closing the bug since this is already documented in the
lintian override:
https://sources.debian.org/src/fetchmail/6.6.1-1/debian/fetchmail.lintian-overrides
cu
Adrian
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