Bug#971282: ABI breakage: paths changed for sysusers.d/sysctl.d/binfmt/modules-load.d

[Felipe Sateler]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 4:03 PM Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> Package: systemd
> Version: 246.6-1
> Severity: important
>
> Upstream changed the paths in systemd.pc from prefix to rootprefix in
> v246 for sysusers_dir, sysctl_dir, binfmt_dir and modules-load_dir:
>
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/4a56315a990b802860170ecd1bbd3eb68e14a38b
>
> This breaks packages which use pkg-config to determine those paths and
> where .install files reference /usr/. An example is mandos.
>
> I think we should revert this change. I don't see a compelling reason to
> move those files from /usr to /lib given that we require /usr to be
> pre-mounted by initramfs, if it's separate.
> Moving files from /usr to /lib files kinda backwards nowadays.
>
> I intend to apply a patch like the attached one in Debian.
> That said, I hope I can convince Lennart to revert this change upstream
> as well.
>

Looks good to me.


>
> Thoughts, Comments?
>

I wonder if systemd can be fully installed into `/usr` now that we require
premounting. Maybe we should start changing lintian and other tools to
install into /usr instead of /lib for the tools that currently used
rootprefix (I believe systemd searches in /usr anyway).

This is likely to be a multi-release effort, but if we never start, we will
never end.

-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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