Bug#930472: lintian: systemd-service-file-missing-install-key shouldn't fire for dbus activated services
Package: lintian
Version: 2.15.0
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I'm working on the rauc package at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/rauc/
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I build the package, then lintian runs.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Lintian complains about systemd-service-file-missing-install-key, and
it's true, there's no install key in the rauc.service file provided by
upstream.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
The warning should not fire in this case.
Upstream ships a systemd service file, and a d-bus service file. The
rauc daemon is d-bus activated (meaning, it's automatically started by
the client when needed).
This use-case is described in the systemd service documentation,
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html#id-1.10.6,
(see Example 5. DBus services).
May I quote:
For bus-activatable services, do not include a "[Install]" section
in the systemd service file ...
So, well, I don't know if Lintian is aware of dbus service files that
get installed at `/usr/share/dbus-1/` (I'm not familiar with lintian at
all). If so, then Lintian could look for a key `SystemdService=` in the
d-bus service file, along with `BusName=` in the systemd service file.
If both are found, Lintian shouldn't complain then about a missing
[Install] key. We could even go as far as asking Lintian to complain
about the *existence* of [Install] in this case, but maybe I'm getting
carried away...
Thanks,
Arnaud
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.31.1-16
ii bzip2 1.0.6-9
ii diffstat 1.62-1
ii dpkg 1.19.6
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.6
ii file 1:5.35-4
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9
ii gpg 2.2.12-1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1
pn libdigest-sha-perl <none>
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.6
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libio-async-perl 0.72-1
ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii liburi-perl 1.76-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.76+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.5-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.28.1-6
ii t1utils 1.41-3
ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3
ii libtext-template-perl 1.55-1
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