Dear Maintainer(s),

qpsmtpd 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/qpsmtpd

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.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
qpsmtpd, 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 1039338@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Nadzeya Hutsko <nadzeya@debian.org> (supplier of updated qpsmtpd package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:22:07 +0200
Source: qpsmtpd
Architecture: source
Version: 0.94-11
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Changed-By: Nadzeya Hutsko <nadzeya@debian.org>
Closes: 1039338
Changes:
 qpsmtpd (0.94-11) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * QA upload.
   * Add a native systemd service, as systemd-sysv-generator was removed
     upstream in systemd v260 (Closes: #1039338)
     - It runs a small helper, as ExecStart cannot take the binary from
       SERVER or expand INTERFACES into one --listen-address each.
     - postinst enables it to follow the qpsmtpd/startup_enabled debconf
       answer, as the init script's ENABLED gate did.
     - Nothing is started on install, so existing installs need
       "systemctl start qpsmtpd" or a reboot.
   * The init script stays installed for sysvinit users.
   * Depend on libnet-ip-perl. The default /etc/qpsmtpd/plugins enables
     check_relay, which loads plugins/relay, which uses Net::IP, so a
     default install could not start.
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