WARNING: dh_installsystemd is moving unit files to /usr/lib/systemd/system

Niels Thykier niels at thykier.net
Sat Aug 21 09:34:07 BST 2021


Michael Biebl:
> Hi Nils, hi Peter
> 
> Am 20.08.21 um 07:54 schrieb Niels Thykier:
> 
>> As people have concluded already, the change was intended and functional
>> although lintian was not updated to match.  Accordingly, I will close
>> this bug against debhelper.
> 
> I think we should start doing the same for udev files in
> /lib/udev/rules.d (i.e. move rules files vi dh_installudev). I will file
> bugs against debhelper and lintian so we can coordinate that.
> 

OK. :)

>> @Michael: Re: lintian, then there is already a bug now with a patch
>> https://bugs.debian.org/992465
> 
> Thanks for the hint.
> 
> I guess after some point, I'd like to see lintian switched to actually
> flag packages that still install files in /lib/systemd/system, i.e. warn
> about them, so we can track the progress of the conversion to
> /usr/lib/systemd/system
> We currently have well over 1100 packages installing over 2200 service
> files in /lib, so it's probably too early to do that. Maybe in a couple
> of months.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> 

Also, before that, we will need a solution to the generators issue
(#992554 comment #25 and below).

Thanks,
~Niels




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