[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#835502: Bug#835502: mpd: add systemd user unit for autorun with systemd user-session

[Florian Schlichting]

Hi Protserovsd,

> In Archlinux mpd package provides /usr/lib/systemd/user/mpd.service file, which
> allows mpd to be started by systemd user session (useful for autostart on user
> login). It would be great if Debian packages' also provided this unit.

this is an interesting suggestion. I don't have much experience with
user units, but I think it's not too dangerous to experiment a bit. So
mpd 0.19.19-1 which I'm just uploading to unstable has a user unit,
slightly adjusted from the system unit (simplified - do you know what
Arch is using?).

I wonder how that works together with the XDG autostart .desktop file
that we ship?

Please try it out and send me your suggestions!

Florian

PS:
Since you seem to be using stable, can you just add the unit file there
and see if that works well?
as /usr/lib/systemd/user/mpd.service:

[Unit]
Description=Music Player Daemon (user unit)
Documentation=man:mpd(1) man:mpd.conf(5)
Documentation=file:///usr/share/doc/mpd/user-manual.html

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpd --no-daemon

# disallow writing to /usr, /bin, /sbin, ...
ProtectSystem=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target