[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#727708: systemd-shim uploaded to NEW

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 06:29:10PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Steve Langasek writes ("Bug#727708: systemd-shim uploaded to NEW"):
> > So I repeat here my request that the systemd maintainers make a suitable
> > split of the systemd binary package, so that systemd-shim will be
> > coinstallable with the systemd-provided implementations of the other dbus
> > services.

> Is there a summary of the systemd maintainers' response to this
> request ?  I glanced #726763 and #729576 but they were very long and
> if the answer is in there I probably wouldn't have found it.

The relevant discussion on debian-devel is here:

http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20131024012751.GA7604@virgil.dodds.net
http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/87bo2fyruk.fsf_-_@qurzaw.varnish-software.com

> >  The only alternative I see is for systemd-shim to declare a
> > Replaces: against systemd without a Conflicts,

> This would be quite wrong; Replaces is not supposed to be used like
> that (but you apparently know that).

Yes.  Raphaël rightly points out that dpkg-divert can be used for this; if
necessary, that's what I'll do.

But I still think the right thing here is for the systemd package to be
split.

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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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