[HEADS UP] dh_systemd_* will move to debhelper / removal of systemd2init

[Ondřej Surý]

Yep, go ahead with your plan. And I look at those bugs somewhere in the summer.

Cheers,
Ondřej


On 8 July 2016 16:22:18 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Ondřej, hi everyone
>
> during debconf, Niels approached me about getting dh_systemd_* moved
> into debhelper proper. I think those helpers are stable enough by now
> that it makes sense to do so.
>
> This means, dh-systemd will be a mostly empty package. Only systemd2init
> would remain.
> My plan was, to make dh-systemd an empty, transitional package, which
> pulls in a new enough version of debhelper. In buster we might even get
> rid of it completely by adding a versioned Provides to debhelper.
>
> I checked codesearch.d.n and couldn't find any usage of systemd2init
> there. So far we also got only two bug reports from a single user [1][2]
> just very recently. Which makes me believe that it's only very rarely
> used. I therefor would like to remove systemd2init from
> src:init-system-helpers which means it would need a new home.
>
> Would you be ok with taking over systemd2init again?
>
> Also CCing pkg-systemd-maintainers@ in case someone has any concerns
> regarding this plan.
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=824813
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=824816
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