Bug#719695: Prefer symlinks over Alias= for non-matching service names

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: systemd
Version: 223-2
Followup-For: Bug #719695

Hello,

I am hit by the same problem.

So far, we've shipped a SysV init script /etc/init.d/multipath-tools, whereas upstream ships the service file as multipathd.service

I haven't read through all the details on this bug report, but I'd like your advise on how to proceed. Initially I created an Alias=multipath-tools.service, but that did not work. It did not sense the Alias= setting, and instead picked the init script.

I think the manpage should be updated accordingly on whatever the conclusion is.

And looking at this bug report, I'm not sure if this has been concluded.



-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.3+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libapparmor1    2.9.2-3
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4.2-1
ii  libblkid1       2.26.2-6
ii  libc6           2.19-19
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-9
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-9
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-5
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.3-2
ii  libkmod2        21-1
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
ii  libmount1       2.26.2-6
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libseccomp2     2.2.1-2
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2+b1
ii  libsystemd0     223-2
ii  mount           2.26.2-6
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-59.2
ii  udev            222-2
ii  util-linux      2.26.2-6

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.8.20-1
ii  libpam-systemd  223-2

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/logind.conf changed:
[Login]
HandleLidSwitch=ignore
LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=yes


-- no debconf information