Bug#809405: systemd: Backport systemctl is-enabled support for SysV init scripts to Debian Jessie

[Branko Majic]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-17+deb8u2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

At the moment in Debian Jessie (stable) it is not possible to use
systemctl is-enabled command with SysV-style init scripts.

A large portion of Debian Jessie packages unfortunately still provide
only the SysV-style init scripts.

When using certain automation tools, such as Ansible, the systemctl
is-enabled command is used for validating whether the service has been
started already or not. Unfortunately, since this does not work,
automation tools always report the service status as changed. This can
be an issue when checking for idempotency of implemented automation
tool.

This bug has already been reported and resolved (see #760616), but only
in Debian unstable. It would be highly appreciated if this bug were
backported to Debian Jessie as well, especially given the relatively
long release cycles.


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl             2.2.52-2
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-59
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4-1+b1
ii  libblkid1       2.25.2-6
ii  libc6           2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-8
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-8
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-5
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.3-2
ii  libkmod2        18-3
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0     215-17+deb8u2
ii  mount           2.25.2-6
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-59
ii  udev            215-17+deb8u2
ii  util-linux      2.25.2-6

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.8.20-0+deb8u1
pn  libpam-systemd  <none>

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

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