Bug#902942: systemd: please ship man/*.xml files

[Dominique Dumont]

Package: systemd
Version: 239-3
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

libconfig-model-systemd-perl provides a model so that cme command can
check or edit some systemd configuration files. [1]

This systemd model is generated [2] from the systemd documentation provided
in man/*.xml (man pages are not used because they are much harder to parse)

Currently this model is generated upstream and the generated model is
shipped in the source tarball [3] of libconfig-model-systemd-perl.

To be compliant with Debian policy, libconfig-model-systemd-perl package
should:
* drop systemd model from upstream tarball
* regenerate systemd model from systemd xml files

The latter should be done using xml files shipped as binary package,
either in systemd package (along the man pages) or in a systemd-source
package.

Could you ship these xml file in a binary package ?

All the best

[1] https://github.com/dod38fr/config-model/wiki/Managing-systemd-configuration-with-cme
[2] https://github.com/dod38fr/config-model-systemd/blob/master/contrib/parse-man.pl
[3] https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/D/DD/DDUMONT/Config-Model-Systemd-0.238.2.tar.gz

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-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser          3.117
ii  libacl1          2.2.52-3+b1
ii  libapparmor1     2.12-4+b1
ii  libaudit1        1:2.8.3-1
ii  libblkid1        2.32-0.1
ii  libc6            2.27-3
ii  libcap2          1:2.25-1.2
ii  libcryptsetup12  2:2.0.3-4
ii  libgcrypt20      1.8.3-1
ii  libgnutls30      3.5.18-1
ii  libgpg-error0    1.31-1
ii  libidn11         1.33-2.2
ii  libip4tc0        1.6.2-1
ii  libkmod2         25-1
ii  liblz4-1         1.8.2-1
ii  liblzma5         5.2.2-1.3
ii  libmount1        2.32-0.1
ii  libpam0g         1.1.8-3.7
ii  libseccomp2      2.3.3-3
ii  libselinux1      2.8-1+b1
ii  libsystemd0      239-3
ii  mount            2.32-0.1
ii  procps           2:3.3.15-2
ii  util-linux       2.32-0.1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.12.8-3
ii  libpam-systemd  239-3

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-1        0.105-20
pn  systemd-container  <none>

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn  dracut           <none>
ii  initramfs-tools  0.130
ii  udev             239-3

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