Bug#1133417: Provide libsystemd udeb for util-linux

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Cyril Brulebois, le mar. 14 avril 2026 10:20:08 +0200, a ecrit:
> Chris Hofstädtler <zeha at debian.org> (2026-04-13):
> > 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?

Most probably, yes, but it seems to me simpler to maintain the existence
of libsystemd1-udeb that essentially says "no systemd is not running",
than building various udebs differently with a no-systemd option.

(at-spi2-core got a dependency on libsystemd recently too, for instance,
fortunately it's only on the at-spi2-core package which we don't use
yet)

Samuel