On Monday, June 26, 2023 11:52:05 AM EDT Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 10:31:35PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2023 at 22:29, Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > According to Lintian there are 314 packages shipping init scripts > > > without a corresponding systemd unit: > > > > > > https://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-scrip > > > t > > > > > > They currently work because there is still a transitional unit > > > generator that creates a unit on-the-fly on boot. This was always > > > intended as a temporary stop-gap, and is technically vastly inferior to > > > a native unit, as for example it cannot tell the difference between a > > > one-shot and a long-running service, and cannot enable any hardening or > > > sandboxing options. > > > > > > Now the generator is also on the way to be deprecated and removed. It's > > > been there for a decade, which is enough time to complete the > > > transition, and will likely be removed before Trixie ships. > > > > > > Therefore I filed a bug against all affected packages, provided a patch > > > for policy: > > > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039102 > > > > > > and a patch for Lintian to bump the severity from warning to error: > > > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/407 > > > > > > It's possible that there will be a good chunk of false positives, as > > > often new units added don't have a name that matches exactly the old > > > init script name, in which case it's fine to add an override and close > > > the bug. > > > > It would probably make things easier if I typed the destination > > address correctly. > > It's generally expected that you discuss MBFs on this list *before* > actually performing the MBF, so that other options can be discussed, but > meh, whatever.
And also so someone can point out your list of affected packages contains packages that only exist in oldstable so you can revise you list before submitting the bugs. Scott K
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