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

[D.S. Ljungmark]

Completely understand that.

Is there an easy way for us to rebuild the systemd package with the
feature enabled?
( Because right now it's looking like a glove fit to adjust what we're
already doing)

//D.S

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 7:47 PM Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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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