[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] dh-systemd from backports injects init-system-helpers dependency from jessie/sid

[Alexander Wirt]

Apollon Oikonomopoulos schrieb am Monday, den 04. November 2013:

> Hi Bastian,
> 
> On 11:04 Mon 04 Nov     , Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 10:07:28AM +0200, Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote:
> > > As Christos (Cc'd) pointed out, the current version of dh-systemd in 
> > > wheezy-backports (1.11~bpo70) injects a dependency for 
> > > init-system-helpers (>= 1.11), which can't be satisfied using 
> > > wheezy-backports (which contains 1.11~bpo70). This dependency comes from 
> > > a hardcoded misc:Depends substvar in dh_systemd_enable:209. The backport 
> > > should probably have something like this applied:
> > 
> > Is this fixed in Jessie? Then just provide a new backport.
> 
> Unfortunately it is not fixed in Jessie. A fix has been committed to 
> init-system-helpers[1], but it has not been released yet.
> 
> [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/init-system-helpers.git;a=commit;h=409e35fbe39aee732bb3c58b29fa4f6d082a4f6b
> 
> As I see it, there are two options:
> 
>  1. Prepare and upload a new backport (1.11~bpo70.1) which will contain
>     the above commit.
> 
>  2. Wait for 1.12 to be released and subsequently backported.
> 
> Until then, all backported packages build-depending on dh-systemd will 
> be uninstallable. I can do 1, if the backports team and the maintainers 
> of init-system-helpers agree.
Is testing backports so hard? Please go ahead and upload 1.11~bpo70.1 and
please test your backports before you upload them. Such kind of bugs are
really annoying.

Alex
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