Bug#848504: usrmerge breaks various systemd symlinks

[Michael Biebl]

Control: reassign -1 usrmerge
Control: severity -1 serious
Control: affects -1 systemd

Am 17.12.2016 um 19:55 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 19:46:03 +0100 Christian Hofstaedtler
> <zeha at debian.org> wrote:
>> Package: systemd
>> Version: 232-7
>>
>> usrmerge reports that various symlinks installed by systemd are "broken"
>> and cannot be properly converted:
>>
>> WARNING: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.login1.service is a broken symlink and has been renamed!
>> WARNING: /usr/lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target is a broken symlink and has been renamed!
>> WARNING: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service is a broken symlink and has been renamed!
>> WARNING: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service is a broken symlink and has been renamed!
>> WARNING: /usr/lib/systemd/system/procps.service is a broken symlink and has been renamed!
>>
>> ls -la (in /usr/lib/systemd/system/) after conversion:
>>
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 62 Dec 17 18:35 dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 59 Dec 17 18:35 dbus-org.freedesktop.login1.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.login1.service
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 62 Dec 17 18:35 dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Dec 17 18:35 procps.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/procps.service
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Dec 17 18:35 runlevel3.target -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target

Hm, this looks broken indeed. Those symlinks point to themselves.

Before the conversion they look like this
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dez 17 01:54 /lib/systemd/system/procps.service -> systemd-sysctl.service
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Dez 17 01:54 /lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target -> multi-user.target
...

So it seems, usrmerge resolved those to the symlink target.

I don't see anything broken in systemd here though, so 
reassigning to usrmerge (and bumping the severity, as this breaks systemd badly)

Which version of usrmerge is this?

Regards,
Michael


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