[Gentle ping on the below?] § Matthias, Thank you for your reply.

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I just went to refresh my local copy of pureos/core/systemd.git and noticed that the Git history had completely diverged from my 238-5pureos1 upload of June 2018. […] I don't remember changing anything (last commit was by me 5 months ago), but the current Git VCS is the exact same systemd uses in Debian, which makes merging with the Debian packaging much easier. So, this layout is certainly intentional.

Alas, I think you may have misread what I wrote — I had previously uploaded systemd around June 2018 (based on the very same Debian packaging you mention), including pushing to our Git repositories as usual/expected and not doing anything that would prevent merging… if only to keep the diff minimal and sanity maximal. However, when I went to do another update in the last few days I noticed that the history had been entirely scrubbed (see grandfather mail in this thread.) It is this latter rewriting that made me curious.

Didn't you make a systemd upload just recently?

Mm, bhence my "I just went to refresh…" that prompted me to notice in the first place, the actual upload is not really relevant. Best wishes, -- Chris Lamb https://puri.sm