Re: How to handle daemon-not-running bugs of debhelper compat level 11?

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> writes:

    Michael> If the release teams thinks that this should be fixed for
    Michael> buster, I wonder if we shouldn't consider a second
    Michael> approach: Updating debhelper to use compat mode 12
    Michael> behaviour for dh_installinit/dh_installsystemd if compat
    Michael> mode is set to 11.  This would avoid a lot of churn. If we
    Michael> basically update all packages to use compat mode 12
    Michael> behaviour explicitly, we might just as well do that change
    Michael> in a single package.

I can't speak to whether this should be fixed for buster.
I do agree though that the compat 11 behavior seems unlikely to be what
people want.

So I think it is a debhelper bug of some kind; cannot speak to RCness.

--Sam