systemd unit functional, but not enabled by default issue

Patrick Schleizer patrick-mailinglists at whonix.org
Thu May 21 13:31:50 UTC 2015


Martin Pitt:
> Hello Patrick,
> 
> Patrick Schleizer [2015-05-20 15:32 +0000]:
>> Looks like a bug in `deb-systemd-helper`?
>>
>> The spaces in
>>
>>> WantedBy = multi-user.target
>>
>> are unsupported by `deb-systemd-helper`. It needs to be strictly without
>> spaces.
>>
>>> WantedBy=multi-user.target
> 
> Right, and that's how all other units look like too, and the manpages
> don't say that extra space is allowed either (in fact it is explicitly
> not between e. g. '!' or '|' and the program name).
> 
> So, please feel free to file a minor bug against deb-systemd-helper,
> but I wouldn't recommend shipping units like that.
> 
> Martin
> 

Hello Martin!

Thanks. Done.

bug report...

deb-systemd-helper fails to enable systemd units when using 'WantedBy =
' with spaces:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786418

related lintian feature request...

warn against usage of spaces, i.e. 'Type = notify' in systemd unit files:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786421

Cheers,
Patrick




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