[systemd-devel] Support for unmerged-usr systems will be REMOVED in the second half of 2023

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 20 Sept 2022 at 20:18, Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Following this thread started back in April:
>
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-April/047673.html
>
> As far as we understand there are no distributions running or
> optionally supporting systemd that have not either completed, or at
> least started, the transition to merged-usr systems.
>
> So, we are planning to drop support for unmerged-usr systems in the
> first release that will happen in the second half of next year, I.E.:
> any time starting from July 2023 (while we tend to release somewhat
> regularly we do not have strict dates and deadlines, so right now it's
> not possible to tell the exact version, but it will be of course
> communicated once it becomes clear).

As previously announced, this is being prepared now and will be part of v254:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/27999

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi