Bug#918606: systemd: Missing portablectl and portabled in systemd 239+

[Michael Biebl]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

Hi

On Mon, 07 Jan 2019 18:24:41 +0000 "D.S. Ljungmark" <spider at modio.se> wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 239-12~bpo9+1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Systemd 239 and above have a major new feature in the form of Portable
> services. Doing it adds a new service (portabled) with dbus-api's and a
> console utility (portablectl) to control those service.
> 
> These are missing in the Debian packaged version of systemd, and we'd
> really want to use them in our Debian-based production infra. 
> 
> The features are stand-alone and can happily be disabled by default, but
> it'd be very nice to not have to rebuild systemd just to get these
> service.

Those bits are still experimental in v239 and I would consider them more
of a tech preview, which is why I decided to not ship support for that
in the Debian package (for now).
We will reconsider at a later point once it has matured.

The thing is, as soon as I enable support for portabled, some users will
try it and most likely run into problems and report bugs.
With the limited time I have, I prefer to focus on more important bits
of systemd.

Regards,
Michael
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