Bug#1054137: apt: let dh_installsystemd choose the location of units

[Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>]

Hi Julian

On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 19:53:20 +0100 Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> 
wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 07:49:48PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 06:46:14PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > > Dear APT Maintainers,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 04:36:19PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> > > [Move systemd files to /usr]
> > > > I'm attaching a patch for your convenience.
> > > 
> > > Could I ask you to apply this patch some time soon, please?
> > 
> > No, the patch is currently not in an actionable state to my
> > knowledge, we spend a couple hours trying to sort things out
> > in October or so but didn't get anywhere.
> > 
> > And there's urgent RC bug fixing in python-apt I
> > do need to finish up first before I can wrap my head around
> > this again.
>
> FWIW, I'm more inclined to move the files to /usr manually, that
> avoids all the risky business we identified trying to whack
> dh_installsystemd into shape to install that successfully.

Could you be more specific here?
Where and how and why exactly did you need to override dh_installsystemd?

dh_installsystemd should be the primary interface for installing debian 
specific unit files (and handling upstream provided unit files) and we'd 
like to improve it if possible.

Regards,
Michael

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