Re: How to inform users package is ready to use systemd

[lorenzo <plorenzo@disroot.org>]

Hi,

On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 06:57:36 +0100
Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat> wrote:

> Unpacking simplemonitor (1.13.0-1) ...
> Setting up simplemonitor (1.13.0-1) ...
> Created symlink
> '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/simplemonitor.service' →
> '/usr/lib/systemd/system/simplemonitor.service'. Processing triggers
> for man-db (2.13.0-1) ... -----
> 
> When you said "that should be enough.": do you mean that for a user to
> know that the package is systemd ready this is enough?
> 
> Thank you very much,

Well, I don't use systemd so I'm not able to tell the exact command
but just looking at the man page I think the user can try

systemctl list-units simplemonitor
or
systemctl status simplemonitor
or
systemctl status --all

in general I think is reasonable to expect that a user that wants to
play with services is able to use systemctl to search and query a
service status.
If your package uses dh_installsystemd with default options, the service
should be unmasked, enabled and started by default at install, so your
service comes ready for use even without using systemctl..

Best,
Lorenzo