[debhelper-devel] Bug#887900: dh_installsystemd does not properly handle aliased services

[Niels Thykier]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:44:05 +0100 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 11.1.3
> Severity: normal
> 
> I use the following in network-manager:
> 
> override_dh_systemd_start:
>        dh_link -pnetwork-manager \
>               lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service \
>               lib/systemd/system/network-manager.service
>        dh_systemd_start -pnetwork-manager --no-also NetworkManager.service
> 
> The background is, that traditionally, the Debian SysV init script is
> called /etc/init.d/network-manager and the upstream systemd service is
> named NetworkManager.service
> 
> I thus created the symlink which told dh_systemd_start to not generate
> start code for NetworkManager.service (using deb-systemd-invoke) but
> leave this up to invoke-rc.d network-manager
> 
> It seems this no longer works with dh_installsystemd.
> 
> [...]
Hi Felipe,

What is your take on this bug?

Thanks,
~Niels