[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#745876: Please create /etc/machine-id if it does not exist

[Santiago Vila]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2014, Santiago Vila wrote:

> In fact: What's the benefit of generating this file in base-files at all?

 > block -1 by 745876
 Bug #619244 [systemd] systemd: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8): /etc/machine-id
 619244 was not blocked by any bugs.
 619244 was not blocking any bugs.
 Added blocking bug(s) of 619244: 745876

Aha. So you are trying to fix that bug by moving the file?

IMHO, such bug is ridiculous: On systems where systemd is the init
manager, systemd becomes essential and you simply *don't* remove it!