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Bug#727708: systemd and upstart, a view from a daemon Debian maintainer



On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 12:42:24AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
>  ❦ 28 décembre 2013 23:46 CET, Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> :

> > The package maintainer scripts exposed more complexity too.  It was
> > necessary to add new systemd-specific calls to "deb-systemd-helper".
> > The boilerplate required here was too much to simply include in my
> > existing scripts, so I had to switch the package to using
> > debhelper-generated maintainer scripts.  (This is of course a good
> > idea in the long run, but it would be better to require less
> > yak-shaving.)

> Most of this complexity is because systemd's maintainers are also trying
> to fix the problem with daemon automatically starting after
> install. They would have used triggers otherwise.

What "problem" do you refer to here?  Starting daemons automatically on
install is a policy-driven expectation, not a problem.

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