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Re: WARNING: dh_installsystemd is moving unit files to /usr/lib/systemd/system



On Thu, 2021-08-19 at 08:27 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 19.08.2021 um 06:18 schrieb Theodore Ts'o:
> > There appears to be a rather major regression in debhelper 1.13.4 and
> > 1.13.4nmu1, which is forcing unit files to go in
> > /usr/lib/systemd/system, instead of /lib/systemd/systemd (where sytemd
> > will actually pay attention to them).
> 
> 
> Installing those files in /usr/lib/systemd/system is fine.
> systemd itself will handle them just as well as when they are installed 
> in /lib/systemd/system (see systemd-analyze unit-paths).
> It's our own tooling (debhelper, i-s-h, lintian) which preferred a 
> single path, i.e. /lib/systemd/system.
> 
> I wanted to get debhelper updated anyway in the bookworm release cycle 
> to prefer /usr/lib/systemd/system over /lib/systemd/system, but 
> obviously this should have happened in a more orderly fashion, i.e. 
> lintian would have been updated first.
> 
> I'll check later today, if i-s-h (init-system-helpers) does properly 
> handle this new path. If so, I'd say the bug should be reassigned to 
> lintian and we should start transitioning the files to 
> /usr/lib/systemd/system.
> 
> 
> Michael

<upstream hat on>

This is indeed the right thing to do moving forward, so updating
Lintian would be the best outcome. Thanks!

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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