Bug#1133417: Provide libsystemd udeb for util-linux

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi Chris,

Sorry I haven't answered earlier, I've had been thinking about this for
a while but haven't found time to articulate an answer while traveling.

Chris Hofstädtler <zeha at debian.org> (2026-04-13):
> util-linux (specifically libmount) 2.42 and newer try to use the 
> udev database to resolve some data. This was introduced upstream in 
> this commit:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?h=8bdc2546d38979ca65fa9bfd1bbd6e7b985c69db
> 
> This new code uses various sd_* symbols. As a result, libmount 
> depends on libsystemd. libmount is also used by d-i, thus libmount 
> provides a udeb.
> 
> In #1132561 this was noticed, and I've temporarily disabled the new
> code in src:util-linux. However, it seems like over time we will need
> a libsystemd in d-i to satisfy such dependencies. Also the util-linux
> packaging change to support this is fugly and I'd like to remove it
> ASAP.
> 
> Please provide a libsystemd udeb so libmount (and possibly other
> things in the future) can use libsystemd.

Thanks for the fix/workaround in src:util-linux by the way.

I'm not sure introducing such a udeb would make sense. I don't have any
kind of metric, but I would think large parts if not most of libsystemd
is about interacting with systemd-as-pid-1 anyway?


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi at debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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