Bug#1014115: uninstall does not properly remove enablement symlinks

[Michael Biebl]

Am 30.06.22 um 16:32 schrieb Luca Boccassi:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 at 15:24, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> - masking a service upon uninstallation
>> This is a sad reality, as packages still ship legacy SysV init scripts
>> which are conffiles and would suddenly become active if a package is
>> removed but not purged.
> 
> At some point we should just nuke the sysv unit generator upstream.
> It's been 10+ years, there was plenty of time to add native units
> where needed.
> Then this becomes moot - the old init scripts would be just inert when
> booting under systemd.

Dropping SysV init support would indeed solve that issue.

$ apt-file search /etc/init.d/  | wc -l
1311
$ apt-file search /etc/init.d/  | cut -f1 -d':' | sort -u | wc -l
1180

So we have 1180 package shipping 1311 SysV init scripts.

According to [1], we have 314 source packages which lack 365 service 
units. So our coverage is only about 72%.
Dropping systemd-sysv-generator would break quite a lot of packages. Too 
many imho.

Before we can do this, there should be a more active push to get the 
remaining packages migrated.

A MBF seems like a good first step.

This needs someone though to actively work on this.


Any volunteers?




[1] 
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-script
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