We got some response from the SRU team (@racb): https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2022-August/042250.html
Basically he suggests doing this change in a PPA/jammy-backports, or as a entirely new package: * "what if you were to put systemd-repart as a new package into a PPA, or into jammy-backports?" * "In general, adding new entirely new packages is considered OK from a regression risk perspective." Would this work for you @bluca? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1897932 Title: systemd-repart not packaged Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in systemd source package in Jammy: Confirmed Status in systemd package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] systemd-repart is not (as of 246.6-1ubuntu1) packaged in the Ubuntu/Debian packages of systemd - probably because it has an extra dependency? The bug reporter would like to use it in their new raspberry pi images where they don't have cloud-init installed. The reporter is already using systemd-growfs, but they are missing the nice partition resizing part (so are using cloud-initramfs-growroot). Furthermore, in the mkosi image builder (https://github.com/systemd/mkosi), the systemd/mkosi developers would like to start using systemd-repart for partitioning. Unfortunately, they're currently blocked on this because 22.04 doesn't ship systemd- repart. The upstream CI uses Github Actions which runs on Ubuntu Jammy and will do so until the next Ubuntu LTS is released. If we have to wait for the next LTS to be released, we'll have to wait for a considerable amount of time before we're able to start using systemd- repart. Being able to use systemd-repart will allow the systemd/mkosi developers to take advantage of its improved interface compared to sfdisk, as well as its builtin protections against race conditions surrounding the use of loop devices. The systemd/mkosi developers expect to be able to get rid of some nasty loop device failure in mkosi by using systemd-repart. [Test Plan] This is a missing extra executable. Once enabled it has self-tests in the build-time unit tests, and also a regression test in the autopkgtest 'upstream' suite. [Where problems could occur] Shipping systemd-repart will come with no additional risk. While there is a systemd-repart.service that runs on boot, it's configured to not do anything if no config files are shipped with the system or provided by the user. As such, the service, if enabled, will effectively be a noop. Aside from the service, there's the CLI tool systemd-repart and the accompanying man pages that will be shipped as part of the systemd package. Given that there's no risk involved with enabling systemd-repart, and given the useful features it provides, the systemd/mkosi developers would like to request that systemd-repart be enabled in Ubuntu and backported to Jammy so that they can start adopting it in mkosi. Runtime behavior of existing components is not affected by the build config change. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1897932/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
