Packaging issue: .service files are no conffiles (due to /lib) while init scripts are conffiles and hence remain longer on the system upon package removal without purging

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Wed Jun 10 11:57:40 BST 2015


Am 10.06.2015 um 12:54 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> Michael Biebl [2015-06-10 12:50 +0200]:
>> To address this, we added code do dh_systemd, to mask the service on
>> remove. So even if the package is only removed, but not purged, be
>> remaining sysv init script will not be considered by systemd.
>> This mask is removed on purge.
> 
> Oh, thanks for pointing out! Seems I forgot about that one. So we
> already have the debhelperization for this, nice :-)

And you should use dh_systemd anyway, to properly enable the service on
installation.




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