Bug#1021821: systemd: FTBFS with stage1 profile

[Niels Thykier]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2022 14:28:12 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Am 15.10.22 um 14:01 schrieb Helmut Grohne:
> > Source: systemd
> > Version: 251.6-1
> > Severity: important
> > Justification: breaks architecture bootstrap
> > Tags: ftbfs patch
> > User: helmutg at debian.org
> > Usertags: rebootstrap
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the addition of cryptsetup plugins broke the stage1 build. Do you think
> > it would be possible to add a native stage1 build pass to salsa-ci such
> > that you'd notice earlier? Of course you'd only get the failure then,
> > not the patch. ;)
> > 
> > What happens to break is missing files in dh_install. Clearly, the
> > intention was not to include cryptsetup plugins in stage1 and I agree
> > with that. Unfortunately, dh_install itself does not allow
> > conditionalizing lines in .install files. I'm attaching a patch that
> > uses dh-exec to achieve this and hope you like it. If not, maybe we can
> > install the plugins from debian rules manually?
> 
> Given that dh-exec is basically unmaintained, I'm a bit reluctant to 
> switch to it.

The dh-exec package has a maintainer again. (I think this was mentioned 
on IRC as well - repeating here for completeness)

> Could you raise this with Niels/debhelper: I do think we need better 
> support for build profiles in dh_install.

Personally, I think dh-exec does a great job at providing filters (among 
other features) to debhelper configuration files and I am not currently 
not considering to absorbing them into debhelper itself.

Thanks,
~Niels