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and subject line Re: Bug#1039332: ps-watcher: ships sysv-init script without
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regarding ps-watcher: ships sysv-init script without systemd unit
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Package: ps-watcher
Severity: important
User: [email protected]
Usertags: missing-systemd-service
Dear Maintainer(s),
ps-watcher has been flagged by Lintian as shipping a sysv-init script
without a corresponding systemd unit file. The default init system in
Debian is systemd, and so far this worked because a transitional
sysv-init-to-unit generator was shipped by systemd. This is in the
process of being deprecated and will be removed by the time Trixie
ships, so the remaining packages that ship init scripts without
systemd units will stop working.
There are various advantages to using native units, for example the
legacy generator cannot tell the different between a oneshot service
and a long running daemon. Also, sanboxing and security features
become available for services. For more information, consult the
systemd documentation:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html
You can find the Lintian warning here:
https://lintian.debian.org/sources/ps-watcher
In case this is a false positive, please add a Lintian override to
silence it and then close this bug.
Thanks!
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Tag: unreproducible
Am 03.11.25 um 12:06 schrieb Luca Boccassi:
On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 at 10:04, Jan Wagner<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Luca,
Am 26.06.23 um 00:27 [email protected]:
ps-watcher has been flagged by Lintian as shipping a sysv-init script
without a corresponding systemd unit file. The default init system in
Debian is systemd, and so far this worked because a transitional
sysv-init-to-unit generator was shipped by systemd. This is in the
process of being deprecated and will be removed by the time Trixie
ships, so the remaining packages that ship init scripts without
systemd units will stop working.
The package is shipping /usr/lib/systemd/system/ps-watcher.service as
you can see athttps://packages.debian.org/trixie/all/ps-watcher/filelist.
There are various advantages to using native units, for example the
legacy generator cannot tell the different between a oneshot service
and a long running daemon. Also, sanboxing and security features
become available for services. For more information, consult the
systemd documentation:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html
You can find the Lintian warning here:
https://lintian.debian.org/sources/ps-watcher
This gives a 404 andhttps://udd.debian.org/lintian/?packages=ps-watcher
also doesn't have this lintian warning listed.
So if you are fine with it, I would go ahead and close the bug as false
positive.
Yeah no problem, these were all opened long ago so they could have
been false positives, or fixed since. Thanks for looking into it
Closing this, as not affected
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