Completely understand that. Is there an easy way for us to rebuild the systemd package with the feature enabled? ( Because right now it's looking like a glove fit to adjust what we're already doing)
//D.S On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 7:47 PM Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > > Control: severity -1 wishlist > > Hi > > On Mon, 07 Jan 2019 18:24:41 +0000 "D.S. Ljungmark" <spi...@modio.se> wrote: > > Package: systemd > > Version: 239-12~bpo9+1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > Systemd 239 and above have a major new feature in the form of Portable > > services. Doing it adds a new service (portabled) with dbus-api's and a > > console utility (portablectl) to control those service. > > > > These are missing in the Debian packaged version of systemd, and we'd > > really want to use them in our Debian-based production infra. > > > > The features are stand-alone and can happily be disabled by default, but > > it'd be very nice to not have to rebuild systemd just to get these > > service. > > Those bits are still experimental in v239 and I would consider them more > of a tech preview, which is why I decided to not ship support for that > in the Debian package (for now). > We will reconsider at a later point once it has matured. > > The thing is, as soon as I enable support for portabled, some users will > try it and most likely run into problems and report bugs. > With the limited time I have, I prefer to focus on more important bits > of systemd. > > Regards, > Michael > -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? >
