[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#853905: Bug#853905: Ships incorrect /usr/lib/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants files, makes disabling impossible

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Hi Yuri--

On Wed 2017-02-01 17:25:44 -0500, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> Package: gnupg-agent
> Version: 2.1.18-3
> Severity: normal
>
> According to upstream, it's incorrect to ship user/sockets.target.wants/* files
> directly, as those cannot be disabled by the administrator.
>
> Quote:
>
>   ... should instead ship this with an [install] section and enable it at
>   package install time with "systemctl preset --global gpg-agent.socket" ...
>   that you way can "systemctl disable --global gpg-agent.socket" whenever you
>   like.
>
> See: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5179#issuecomment-276797851

Thanks for this suggestion, however, Michael Biebl (one of debian's
systemd maintainers, cc'ed here) explicitly suggested shipping the
symlink there:

   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764678#51

If i've misunderstood that comment, i'm happy to be corrected.

I'm open to concrete suggestions for how this should change for stretch
that won't cause future problems, though by now we'd need to ask for a
freeze exception to get any such update included.

Regards,

       --dkg

PS the unit is still maskable in its current setup, as noted in
README.Debian.
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