[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#741496: Bug#741496: Bug#741496: Switching between packages providing the same Alias is broken (see syslog.service handling)

[Michael Biebl]

Am 17.03.2014 13:53, schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 15.03.2014 20:48, schrieb Michael Stapelberg:

>> entirely sure that we need to address this in dh-systemd itself. I mean,
>> certainly, it’d be better if dh-systemd could just do the right thing,
>> but I don’t see a good solution.
>>
>> Can we work around this in the maintscripts of the affected packages
>> instead, perhaps by simply deleting /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service
>> in preinst when it points to a non-existing file?
> 
> As the files are not yet unpacked in preinst (say rsyslog.preinst),
> checking for the file to be a dangling symlink is probably not a
> sufficient check, since we potentially would remove it, even if
> /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service pointed to
> /lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service.

I also need to check, if leaving the dangling
/etc/systemd/system/syslog.service symlink around after package
uninstall confuses systemd wrt to syslog.socket.


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