Hi Ted, On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 07:34:39PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Out of curiosity, do you know when this change to systemdsystemunitdir > is planned to happen? I was planning on releasing a 1.47.1 release in > the next month or two, and I'm curious about the planned timing of the > change in systemd.pc. Are we talking about something that is going to > happen in days? weeks? months? > > It would be helpful to know how urgently we need to get an updated > Debian source package released.
Indeed. Timing is a difficult matter as it depends on others to adopt these patches. I didn't want to delay these patches to figure out the timing first and was expecting more like 10 initially. At this time, I hope that I'm done and the total count is about 50. That's packages that will FTBFS when changing, so quite obviously we're more into weeks than days. On the flip side, this should definitely be done in 2023 or we'll drag it on into forky. In the grand scheme of things, I'm hoping for sooner rather than later, because this aspect is the one that lets us convert the biggest chunk of probably 400 packages using binNMUs and beyond that, we're looking into more manual work for the remaining 1600 ones to be done by trixie. Unlike many other things I've done in Debian, the /usr-merge one is one where my predictions were repeatedly wrong, so I'm having a harder time to nail down timing. Hope you can understand. We'll upgrade these bugs to RC ahead of doing the breaking upload. Helmut
