[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#723727: at: "debug" output at install time??

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi,

"Ph. Marek" <philipp.marek at linbit.com> writes:
> at (3.1.14-1) wird eingerichtet ...
> ln -s '/lib/systemd/system/atd.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-
> user.target.wants/atd.service'
> [ ok ] Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
>
>
> Is that a debug output? Looks like that, because the symlink exists (now).
No, this is not debug output, it’s intentionally there so that the user
will be aware that the service was enabled. The output is what you’d get
when running “systemctl enable atd.service”.

Given that it caused some confusion, we can think about what to do in
order to improve the situation:

1) We could prefix it with a message like “Enabling atd.service: ”
2) We could remove it altogether, but I’m not sure whether that is a
   good choice. Is there a paragraph of debian-policy dealing with
   decisions like this? Or do we have a strong precedence case that
   establishes a best practice?

-- 
Best regards,
Michael