Bug#939904: systemd should ship resolvconf symlink in some package

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason at zx2c4.com
Tue Aug 25 23:04:44 BST 2020


On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:02:59AM +0300, Tim Mohlmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > So for wireguard's purposes, it would be good to figure out how to get
> > some debian package that ships the symlink in question (i understand why
> > you can't ship the symlink by default in the systemd package -- it would
> > conflict with the other implementations of resolvconf).
> 
> I've stumbled across this after I replied to 930735. Arch linux seems to
> solve it by a separate package. It blocks openresolv, to prevent the
> conflict on the symlink.
> 
> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/systemd-resolvconf/


This seems like an exceedingly reasonable way of handling this. Can
Debian move forward with something similar?

Jason



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