Bug#1039389: tango: ships sysv-init script without systemd unit

[Santiago Ruano Rincón]

El 25/06/23 a las 23:33, bluca at debian.org escribió:
> Package: tango
> Severity: important
> User: bluca at debian.org
> Usertags: missing-systemd-service
> 
> Dear Maintainer(s),
> 
> tango has been flagged by Lintian as shipping a sysv-init script
> without a corresponding systemd unit file. The default init system in
> Debian is systemd, and so far this worked because a transitional
> sysv-init-to-unit generator was shipped by systemd. This is in the
> process of being deprecated and will be removed by the time Trixie
> ships, so the remaining packages that ship init scripts without
> systemd units will stop working.
> 
> There are various advantages to using native units, for example the
> legacy generator cannot tell the different between a oneshot service
> and a long running daemon. Also, sanboxing and security features
> become available for services. For more information, consult the
> systemd documentation:
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html
> 
> You can find the Lintian warning here:
> 
> https://lintian.debian.org/sources/tango
> 
> In case this is a false positive, please add a Lintian override to
> silence it and then close this bug.
> 
> Thanks! 
> 

FTR, a to-be-debianised systemd recipe is documented here:

https://tango-controls.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials-and-howtos/how-tos/how-to-integrate-with-systemd.html

I am planing to include this in 9.4.2+dfsg-1, currently WIP on master.
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