Re: Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service
On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 19:07:51 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote:
> Of course, maybe I misspoke but my point wasn't about the configuration files
> remaining as expected just removing the package and not purging it. It is about
> the broken symlink to its service file which is for sure no more present
> whatever a removal or a purge. Or is such a symlink considered as part of
> configuration files? I don't think so, but I might be wrong.
The question is about this dangling symlink:
hobbit:/etc/systemd/system$ ls -l dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Feb 17 2024 dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service -> /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service
hobbit:/etc/systemd/system$ ls -lL dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service
ls: cannot access 'dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service': No such file or directory
This symlink is not part of the package's inventory:
hobbit:~$ dpkg -l systemd-timesyncd | tail -n1
rc systemd-timesyncd 252.22-1~deb12u1 amd64 minimalistic service to synchronize local time with NTP servers
hobbit:~$ dpkg -L systemd-timesyncd
/etc
/etc/dhcp
/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d
/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/timesyncd
/etc/systemd
/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf
I'm unclear on exactly how this symlink gets created. (If I still had
the package installed, I would look at the postinst script and so on,
but since I've removed the package, that's more difficult. Also,
<http://packages.debian.org/systemd-timesyncd> is not responding at
the moment.)
As far as I can tell, the dangling symlink is not doing any harm.
Therefore, I've never felt any need to investigate it.
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