Bug#771739: could not start nodm with systemd 217-1 or 217-2

[Didier Roche]

Le 02/12/2014 14:33, Michael Biebl a écrit :
> Am 02.12.2014 um 14:17 schrieb Didier Roche:
>> Le 02/12/2014 13:44, Michael Biebl a écrit :
>>> Am 02.12.2014 um 13:06 schrieb Didier Roche:
>>>> This is to fix multiple bug reports where people don't have (or have
>>>> multiple) dm services starting.
>>> Can you provide links to such bug reports so we have a bit of a context?
>>>
>> Sure:
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748668
>> and
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770404
>> in particular.
> Those are bugs in the lxdm and slim packages and need to be fixed there.
> Trying to workaround that in systemd looks like the wrong approach.

Hence my first patch about it, however, bigon asked the release team 
which nacked doing this for jessie. That's why I'm telling this patch is 
intended to be a bandaid until we get there.
>
>> Those generators will enable in jessie+1 to implement something like in
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764607 without needing
>> all DM to transition to this scheme.
> What exactly do you mean with "this scheme"? Are you referring to having
> native .service files ship an Alias=display-manager.service in their
> [Install] section?
>
Exactly, as intended upstream and done in other distributions.