@otto

I was working from the reverse. Specifically, performing debdiff between
artful-release & artful-security, and noticing un-necessary changes to
packaging. Note that -security/-updates uploads should not, in general,
introduce any packaging changes or improvements. Yes, there are commits
changing the packaging to match unstable toolchain/debhelper/etc,
however debhelper will remain stable in artful and thus continues to
need all the pre-existing hacks and workarounds as shipped in artful.

Thus this is not about "reverts" this is about the fact that one simply
cannot use packaging which targets unstable, as the basis for security
uploads, unless packaging is carefully maintained to be backwards
compatible. One way to do this is to maintain separate per-release
branches (as i do for systemd), or have an extensive amount of
conditionals to keep packages building for older releases (like e.g. gcc
packaging does, by comparing target release series, and trying to do the
right thing for each one).

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Title:
  Security update 10.1.30-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 regresses smoke test, mariadb
  not started upon install

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