Dear Maintainer(s),

wide-dhcpv6 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/wide-dhcpv6

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
wide-dhcpv6, 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 1039419@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org> (supplier of updated wide-dhcpv6 package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:24:38 -0500
Source: wide-dhcpv6
Architecture: source
Version: 20080615-25
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Changed-By: Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>
Closes: 1039419 1054059 1077616 1143898
Changes:
 wide-dhcpv6 (20080615-25) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * QA upload.
   * Set Maintainer to Debian QA Group following orphaning (#1152080).
   * Add native systemd units and helpers based on Simon Poirier's Ubuntu
     packaging (LP: #2153936). Retain SysV init support and the installer udeb.
     Fix the executable-condition directive and shell expansion in the
     empty-interface conditions. Run the client and relay in the foreground
     under systemd (Closes: #1039419, #1143898, #1077616).
   * Add a native NetworkManager dispatcher hook (Closes: #1054059).
   * debian/control: Bump debhelper compat to v13.
   * debian/copyright: Credit the new packaging contributions and replace
     the obsolete FSF address with a common-license reference.
   * Drop obsolete lsb-base dependencies: init-functions is now provided
     by the Essential sysvinit-utils package.
   * debian/watch: Use format 4 and HTTPS.
   * Remove the mismatched blanket patch-forwarding Lintian override.
   * debian/control: Update Standards-Version to 4.7.4, drop Priority and
     correct delegation spelling in package descriptions.
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