Bug#1113712: init-system-helpers: deb-systemd-helper(1p) man page issues

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Mon Sep 1 13:52:03 BST 2025


Package: init-system-helpers
Version: 1.69
Severity: minor

The deb-systemd-helper(1p) man page contains

  The "was-enabled" action is not present in systemctl, but is required in
  Debian so that we can figure out whether a service was enabled before we
  installed an updated service file. See http://bugs.debian.org/717603 for
  details.

At least bug 717603 is obsolete (fixed in 2013, i.e. 12 years ago).

  The "update-state" action is also not present in systemctl. It updates
  deb-systemd-helper's state file, removing obsolete entries (e.g. service
  files that are no longer shipped by the package) and adding new entries
  (e.g.  new service files shipped by the package) without enabling them.

There is a spurious double-space after the second "e.g." (last line).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.16.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages init-system-helpers is related to:
pn  insserv  <none>

-- no debconf information

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