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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 03.02.2017 um 02:08 schrieb 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.

I wouldn't change anything for stretch and keep the status quo.

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