Bug#1036920: systemd: please ship a placeholder in /usr/lib/modules-load.d/

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 29 May 2023 at 14:07, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 29/05/2023 14.57, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > Wouldn't the correct workaround be to list /usr/lib/modules-load.d in
> > systemd.dirs so that dpkg leaves it alone? Seems way too late for
> > Bookworm though?
>
> for dpkg, /usr/lib/modules-load.d is already owned by systemd, dpkg only
> accidentally deletes it while removing /lib/modules-load.d
>
> That's the reason for adding some placeholder file there, to prevent
> accidental removal of the (no longer empty) directory.
> Could be part of the first bookworm point release.

Does it matter that much if the empty directory is removed? Next time
a package shipping a modules-load config is installed it will be just
re-added, no? Or are there functional issues?

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi