Am 30.06.22 um 16:32 schrieb Luca Boccassi:
On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 at 15:24, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote:- masking a service upon uninstallation This is a sad reality, as packages still ship legacy SysV init scripts which are conffiles and would suddenly become active if a package is removed but not purged.At some point we should just nuke the sysv unit generator upstream. It's been 10+ years, there was plenty of time to add native units where needed. Then this becomes moot - the old init scripts would be just inert when booting under systemd.
Dropping SysV init support would indeed solve that issue. $ apt-file search /etc/init.d/ | wc -l 1311 $ apt-file search /etc/init.d/ | cut -f1 -d':' | sort -u | wc -l 1180 So we have 1180 package shipping 1311 SysV init scripts.According to [1], we have 314 source packages which lack 365 service units. So our coverage is only about 72%. Dropping systemd-sysv-generator would break quite a lot of packages. Too many imho.
Before we can do this, there should be a more active push to get the remaining packages migrated.
A MBF seems like a good first step. This needs someone though to actively work on this. Any volunteers?[1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-script
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