Dear maintainers of debhelper and systemd,
Thank you for maintaining the both incredibly useful packages debhelper
and systemd in Debian.
I'm currently struggling with finding the correct location where systemd
unit files are expected to be installed on Debian systems. Within one of
my packages, smcroute, I am querying the pkg-config variable
systemdsystemunitdir during build in order to use the directory that
systemd wants. The following command is an example how pkg-config is
called and what it returns as output as of current Debian unstable:
micha@hostname:~$ pkg-config --variable=systemdsystemunitdir systemd
/lib/systemd/system
micha@hostname:~$
However, Lintian flags it as an error (even though the systemd service
is still correctly managed and managable with systemd):
E: smcroute: systemd-service-in-odd-location
lib/systemd/system/smcroute.service
This in turn causes the Salsa CI pipeline to mark the build as failed.
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/smcroute/-/pipelines/295256
Can you please provide me some guidance whether either
a) I should file a bug on debhelper to demote
systemd-service-in-odd-location from an error to a warning
or
b) I should file a bug on systemd to fix the systemdsystemunitdir
variable in the systemd.pc file shipped within the systemd package?
Thanks a lot for your guidance.
Best regards,
Micha
