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

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 11:29 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> 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

I'd note that nobody did resolve the issues for Yocto Project yet so
our CI will break if we try and upgrade :(.

Richard