Dear Maintainer(s), heimdal 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/heimdal In case this is a false positive, please add a Lintian override to silence it and then close this bug. Thanks!
Dear Maintainer(s) of affected packages, these bugs have been open for more than 2 years now. Policy was updated to make units mandatory for system services. The removal of compat with sysv-init scripts from systemd has been postponed from trixie to forky, but it is now approaching. In approximately a month's time, this should hit unstable, if everything goes well. Therefore in order to ensure the remaining bugs do not fall through the cracks I am raising severity again, as there is a very high chance the affected packages will stop working as intended in about a month's time in the default setup. As already mentioned in the original bug report, if your package is not intended to work as a systemd service or under systemd at all, please feel free to downgrade or close+wontifx or anything else as you see fit. The severity raising is not intended to make anyone support scenarios they don't wish to support, but simply to ensure attention is given to the issue, even if just to close+wontfix. Also the bugs were opened based on Lintian reports, and it is possible that there might be false positives. Thanks for your work and understanding.
bluca@debian.org writes: Any help appreciated, as I don't have any time.
bluca@debian.org writes: Any help appreciated, as I don't have any time.
I'm looking at this from the Ubuntu side, and will share my findings or fixes with debian.
Hello, Bug #1039220 in heimdal reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/heimdal/-/commit/887abbf753063201b0dc5074b742a2bfb3a48afc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Add systemd service units for heimdal-kdc and heimdal-kcm Provide debian/heimdal-kdc.service and debian/heimdal-kcm.service so each package ships a systemd unit matching its init.d script, fixing the lintian missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-script errors. Closes: #1039220, #1030084. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/1039220
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
heimdal, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 1039220@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Brian May <bam@debian.org> (supplier of updated heimdal package)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:01:00 +1000
Source: heimdal
Architecture: source
Version: 7.8.git20221117.28daf24+dfsg-12
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Brian May <bam@debian.org>
Changed-By: Brian May <bam@debian.org>
Closes: 1030084 1039220 1139320
Changes:
heimdal (7.8.git20221117.28daf24+dfsg-12) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Fix memory leak in handle_read. Closes: #1139320.
* Add systemd service units for heimdal-kdc, heimdal-kpasswdd and
heimdal-kcm. Closes: #1039220, #1030084.
* Apply upstream fix ipropd-slave recovery.
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