[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#715267: [PATCH] use dh-systemd

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Fri Feb 28 06:41:35 UTC 2014


tags 715267 + wontfix
thanks

Following up on the discussion we had between Stefan, Michael S. and me,
I'm marking the bug as wontfix.
For completeness sake I'm copying the relevant parts

> d/ Most importantly, I don't think we actually want to use dh-systemd.
> This generates code to
> - start/restart wpasupplicant on installation and upgrades
> - enable the wpa_supplicant.service and hooks it up in multi-user.target
> 
> I don't think we should start/restart wpasupplicant on upgrades, as most
> of the time it will be under control of either ifupdown or
> NetworkManager and this would potentially break the network connection.
> 
> Also, unconditionally starting the service on boot via multi-user.target
> doesn't seem like a good idea to me, this might e.g. conflict with
> wpa_supplicant being started via ifupdown.
> 

and

> We *should* continute to ship the .service files, this is important, so
> D-Bus activation works properly under systemd (NM e.g. relies on D-Bus
> activation).
> I just wouldn't register the service using dh-systemd given the reasons
> I mentioned




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