Re: Need help with Multi-Arch in systemd

[Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 08:08:13AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> I also proposed a solution here, which is avoiding
> SystemCallArchitectures=native. Initially, that sounds like a
> maintenance nightmare until you notice that it can be solved on a
> technical level. We already have dh_installsystemd. How bad would it be
> to have dh_installsystemd change .service files and automatically
> replace =native with a concrete architecture (in arch:any packages
> only)? systemd would no longer detect the architecture of services from
> its own one but rather use the one documented by the package. The mixing
> of architectures that our earlier solution broke would now partially
> work. We'd fix one package and binNMU the pile.

I've discussed this with #systemd on libera.chat. That resulted in a new
approach: Letting systemd detect the architecture of the binary being
executed. We've reported that as a feature request at
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/20277. I therefore propose to
temporarily ignore the SystemCallArchitectures issue on the Debian side
and see what upstream thinks about it.

The libsystemd-shared issue can be tackled independently.

Helmut