[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#775385: lightdm: unowned symlink after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8): /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service

[anbe at debian.org (Andreas Beckmann)]

Followup-For: Bug #775385
Control: found -1 1.18.3-1

quoting from
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832351#27

On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:30:47 -0300 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
> And indeed Didier Roche proposed a solution (in the form of a patch to
> gdm3)[1]. I'm cloning and reassigning this bug to the two display
> managers that do not have a bug already. The TLDR of the solution is:
> 
> 1. Have your systemd unit Alias=display-manager.service
> 2. Use the --no-enable flag to dh_systemd_enable
> 3. Use `systemctl enable $DEFAULT_SERVICE` in the postinst
> 
> Step 1 and 2 should ensure the symlinks are removed on purge.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=764607;filename=use-systemd-alias.debdiff;msg=19


Andreas