[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#895826: conntrack-tools: Default conntrackd run-time to 'Systemd on'

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez]

On 16 April 2018 at 16:38, Corey Bryant <corey.bryant at canonical.com> wrote:
> Package: conntrack-tools
> Version: 1:1.4.4+snapshot20161117-6
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu bionic ubuntu-patch
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:
>   * d/p/enable-runtime-systemd.patch: Enable systemd runtime support by
>     default since the package is compiled with --enable-systemd
>     (LP: #1761994).
>
> Thanks for considering the patch.

Hey Corey,

thanks for the patch.

Why patching upstream code (and maintain a downstream patch) when we
could just ship both a .service file and a conntrackd.conf file using
libsystemd by default?