Bug#729576: Bug#727708: systemd-shim uploaded to NEW

[Josh Triplett]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> Looking more closely, I find that one of the conflicting files is a conffile
> (/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.systemd1.conf).  diversions and
> conffiles still don't mix, AFAIK (and according to current policy).  So that
> seems to still leave us without a proper solution that doesn't involve
> splitting the systemd binary package.

Files in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ need not have names that match the
interface they control; see, for instance, gdm.conf or
nm-dhcp-client.conf.  Why not simply install a systemd-shim.conf with
the contents you need?  To the best of my knowledge, I see nothing in
org.freedesktop.systemd1.conf that should interfere with you.

(That said, personally I'd prefer to see systemd-shim continue to
conflict with systemd, and work with a hypothetical
forked-systemd-logind package instead, which would also conflict with
systemd.  That would then, for instance, unblock systemd's ability to
upgrade past version 204.)

- Josh Triplett