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If this is the case, I am surprised no one has patched this anti-feature out of the source. Both sides made that suggestion directly in the bug reports you linked. I expect it should be positively trivial to implement a patch, but someone must step up and do the work.

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systemd upstream says "distros can patch it out if they want", the debian package maintainer doesn't want to carry a patch. "Someone needs to write a patch" is not the problem here.

Oops. I misread Luca’s reply as willingness to accept a patch, but he said to submit one upstream - where they explicitly don’t want it. So, yeah, deadlock.

Has anyone pushed on this issue? If a patch exists and upstream explicitly says it belongs in the distro, then I expect an explanation from the maintainer(s) would need to be presented to detail exactly why it’s either unsuitable/unmaintainable or left better as-is.

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