Dear Maintainer(s), pure-ftpd 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/pure-ftpd In case this is a false positive, please add a Lintian override to silence it and then close this bug. Thanks!
Here's the service file I've written for systemd. Please note that it uses the configuration file instead of debian's weird wrapper script.
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.
systemd-sysv-generator now displays warnings: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=923523