Bug#993958: apt: Unnecessarily provide empty dir /lib/systemd/

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Control: reassign -1 debhelper
Control: affects -1 apt


Hi,

This looks more like a bug in debhelper than anything else.  Reassigning.

On Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:10:34 -0400 Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: apt
> Severity: normal
> Version: 2.3.9
> X-Debbugs-CC: jak@debian.org
> 
> Dear Debian APT Maintainers,
> 
> % dpkg -c ./apt_2.3.9_amd64.deb | grep systemd    
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2021-09-07 11:25 ./lib/systemd/
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root     16029 2021-09-07 11:25
> ./usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2021-09-07 11:25 ./usr/lib/systemd/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2021-09-07 11:25 ./usr/lib/systemd/system/
> -rw-r--r-- root/root       389 2021-09-07 11:25 ./usr/lib/systemd/system/apt-
> daily-upgrade.service
> -rw-r--r-- root/root       184 2021-09-07 11:25 ./usr/lib/systemd/system/apt-
> daily-upgrade.timer
> -rw-r--r-- root/root       326 2021-09-07 11:25 ./usr/lib/systemd/system/apt-
> daily.service
> -rw-r--r-- root/root       156 2021-09-07 11:25 ./usr/lib/systemd/system/apt-
> daily.timer
> 
> 
> Since systemd system services are now installed under /usr/lib/systemd,
> obviously we do not need to provide the empty directory /lib/systemd/ anymore.
> The systemd binary package always provides it instead. Please consider
> revising the build system and do not generate /lib/systemd/ directory in the
> .deb file.
> 
> Thanks,
> Boyuan Yang