On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 16:37:08 +0100
Anto via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
>
> I just did dist-upgrade on my KVM VPS and I just realised that
> libsystemd0 got pulled from beowulf repository:
>
> root@deeppurple:/home/anto# apt-get update
> > Get:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf InRelease [33.2 kB]
> > Get:2 http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates InRelease [26.0
> > kB] Get:3 http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security InRelease
> > [25.6 kB] Get:4 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii InRelease [33.2
> > kB] Get:5 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-security InRelease
> > [26.3 kB] Get:6 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-updates
> > InRelease [26.0 kB] Get:7 http://deb.devuan.org/merged
> > ascii-security/main amd64 Packages [596 kB] Fetched 767 kB in 3s
> > (225 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done
> > root@deeppurple:/home/anto#
> > root@deeppurple:/home/anto# apt-get -u dist-upgrade
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree      
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Calculating upgrade... Done
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >   linux-image-4.19.0-13-amd64
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> >   libcups2 libcupsimage2 libefiboot1 libefivar1 libnss-myhostname
> > libsystemd0 libxml2 linux-compiler-gcc-8-x86 linux-image-amd64
> > linux-kbuild-4.19 mariadb-common 11 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0
> > to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 51.3 MB of archives.
> > After this operation, 270 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Get:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged
> > beowulf/main amd64 libsystemd0 amd64 241-7~deb10u5 [331 kB] Get:2
> > http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf/main amd64 libcupsimage2 amd64
> > 2.2.10-6+deb10u4 [133 kB] . root@deeppurple:/home/anto#
> >
> > The strange thing is that, I always block anything related to
> > systemd in all my installs using /etc/apt/preference.d like below,
> > but this time it slipped out.
>
> root@deeppurple:/home/anto# cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/00blocksystemd
> > Package: dh-systemd
> > Pin: origin ""

Hi,
shouldn't it be:

Pin: origin *

Ciao,
Tito

> > Pin-Priority: -1
> > .
> > Package: libsystemd0
> > Pin: origin ""
> > Pin-Priority: -1
> > .
> > root@deeppurple:/home/anto#
> >
> > What is going on here?
>
> Now I cannot purge that libsystemd0 because a lot of things depend on
> that.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Anto
>