Introduce new binary package 'runit-helper', allowing packages to access fixes and improvements in 'dh-runit' without rebuild.

3 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2e667cb..cf18f07 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ dh-runit (2.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     backward-incompatible change, hence the version major bump, but I am
     unaware of any actual users of this option.
   * Ensure that after package removal logs belong to root.
+  * Introduce new binary package 'runit-helper', allowing packages to
+    access fixes and improvements in 'dh-runit' without rebuild.
 
  -- Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org>  Wed, 01 Mar 2017 18:38:17 +0300
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 74b3dba..03f464d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -20,3 +20,15 @@ Description: debhelper add-on to handle runit runscripts
  The dh_runit command installs runscripts and adds the appropriate code to
  the postinst, prerm and postrm maint scripts to properly enable/disable
  runscripts.
+
+Package: runit-helper
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
+Description: dh-sysuser implementation detail
+ runit-helper provides code, which actually perform actions on system
+ users on behalf of dh-runit package. This separation allows packages
+ take advantage of improvement or fixes in 'dh-runit' without
+ rebuilding.
+ .
+ This package is implementation detail of 'dh-runit'. It should never
+ be installed manually. No assumption about its content can be made.
diff --git a/debian/runit-helper.install b/debian/runit-helper.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3d377d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/runit-helper.install
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+runit-helper /lib/runit-helper/