Bug#823322: please build "systemd-sysusers" binary

[Alban Crequy (Kinvolk)]

On 16 May 2016 10:09 am, "Jean Baptiste Favre" <jbfavre at jbfavre.org> wrote:
>
> I don't exactly know why they pick up binary from host instead of
> providing it themselves, but, here we are.

Hi,

rkt has a compilation option to choose whether to pick binaries
(systemd, bash) from the host at run-time (aka "flavour host") or to
provide it itself at build-time (aka "flavour coreos", downloading the
pre-compiled binaries from CoreOS or "flavour src", compiling the
binaries from systemd sources). More descriptions on each flavors on:
https://github.com/coreos/rkt/blob/master/Documentation/build-configure.md#--with-stage1-flavors

In the Debian packaging, only the "flavour host" is compiled because
most other flavors would not comply with the "Convenience copies of
code" Debian policy:

4.13 Convenience copies of code
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html