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commit f3e71a81de8333a59e5fad555cc2a420410252b7
Author: Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>
Date: Fri Jul 31 06:00:32 2026 +0200
deb-systemd-invoke: check system() for failure
This actually changes the semantics of deb-systemd-invoke, which
used to silently ignore a systemctl failure e.g. when run as
"deb-systemd-invoke start $unit".
commit d6ef04fa94a935a94cecd81bad4585e5219704e8
Author: Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>
Date: Fri Jul 31 05:04:12 2026 +0200
deb-systemd-invoke: refactoring to make it more idiomatic Perl
- invert the return status
- remove use of sed
- various other fixes and changes
commit 294ea573c375da3cf58a9ae74642fa2a7a0d0be6
Author: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jan 8 21:28:07 2026 +0100
deb-systemd-invoke: add --deferred and enqueue-marked-jobs and support reload/try-restart/restart/start/stop
Allow mark-and-sweep for start/restart/etc. using the appropriate
interfaces. Prefer varlink if supported.
Stop/start are very new so always fallback to immediate action if
a marker is not supported.
commit 4ca2866f0904f18c590b007cbdfccd345fad19b5
Author: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jan 8 15:52:21 2026 +0100
deb-systemd-invoke: use varlink for reload/reexec if supported
commit 6db6812d85ac4985dccc2d9327d3711bae82f5b1
Author: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jan 8 12:33:12 2026 +0100
deb-systemd-invoke: allow bare daemon-reload/daemon-reexec calls
commit b4bd7fa3bbb5d7adfcec19fff15ced53eba13ee3
Author: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jan 8 12:29:29 2026 +0100
deb-systemd-invoke: do not reload/reexec if DPKG_ROOT is set
When acting on an image/chroot we should not reload/reexec the
host
commit ac297580dbf56d0f453d1f7ed2d926baaae79246
Author: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jan 8 12:26:32 2026 +0100
deb-systemd-invoke: refactor actions into functions
commit d81cdb149fabd0f060a1c23f25910c41e5251f8b
Author: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@debian.org>
Date: Mon Jul 6 12:32:02 2026 +0200
Use `$?` to properly report errors in `system` calls
In Perl, `$!` is an alias to the value of `errno` set by the last
syscall. It is useful when reporting errors occurred during `rename` or
`rmdir`.
`$?` instead is used to get the exit status of a command run via
`system`.
The effect of misusing `$!` where `$?` should be used can be seen in
error messages such as the following (note the missing exit status
between "systemctl:" and "at"):
```
Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 148.
```
For reference, see the first code example at
<https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/system>.
commit 0b4aa0896078cd4f69dcbf40ce2e5a9bc90f7611
Author: Alexander GQ Gerasiov <gq@debian.org>
Date: Fri Aug 11 13:53:24 2023 +0300
deb-systemd-helper: Fix alias installation.
commit 2497d3a6688a34f66c71be9cd3261910a1d71c2f
Author: voleks <oleksii.vorobiov@keemail.me>
Date: Sat Jan 17 17:00:03 2026 +0200
updates references in manual
commit bcb26fecc8bf5c08a113c89660ae14a81b0a1e98
Author: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
Date: Thu Feb 12 22:25:31 2026 +0100
Drop kfreebsd-* arch qualifier
The kfreebsd port has been discontinued in 2023 and the kfreebsd-any
arch qualifier removed in dpkg 1.23.0.
commit be53790db4b385e2e1a95bfe79b60393f3620519
Author: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>
Date: Mon Mar 11 16:37:35 2024 +0100
d/rules: Let debhelper handle <nocheck>
debhelper will skip running `dh_auto_test` (or `override_dh_auto_test`)
when run under the <nocheck> profile.
commit 67697e5c813ba86de7ab2e3d4d4366deecd9786e
Author: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Aug 20 15:03:14 2025 +0100
Update gpl link in d/copyright
commit 7a55845a51fb076b72351f7ace4d3d9d1fe25267
Author: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Aug 20 15:02:03 2025 +0100
d/control: bump Standards-Version to 4.7.2, no changes
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