Re: depends-on-obsolete-package lsb-base
On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 at 14:53, Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> wrote:
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> On Jan 20, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > For the systemd-sysv-generator case, the LSB init script is only run if
> > there is no native systemd unit of the same name, which itself triggers
> > a Lintian warning (albeit quite a common one); so hopefully if maintainers
> > are removing lsb-base dependencies as prompted by Lintian, they are also
> > adding a corresponding /lib/systemd/system/foo.service for each
> > /etc/init.d/foo in the package.
> I think that it is time to upgrade the warning, because I understand
> that interest in continuing to maintain systemd-sysv-generator is
> waning.
>
> I will be happy to assist maintainers who want to add a .service unit to
> their package but are unsure about the details.
I already proposed upgrading the warning, but the answer was that
policy needs to change first:
https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/407
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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