How to install and enable timer units in a package?

[Gioele Barabucci]

On 13/12/2016 13:58, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> On 12 December 2016 at 17:40, Gioele Barabucci <gioele at svario.it> wrote:
>> My open question now is: how does one enable/start the installed timer
>> unit "in the right way"?
>>
>> Should I use a postinst maintscript to manually enable and start the
>> timer or are there other and better facilities that I can use?
> 
> You should just use dh_systemd_enable/dh_systemd_start. If you are
> using short-form dh, passing --with systemd will do the trick in
> compat <=9, compat >= 10 enables the systemd sequence by default.

Hi Felipe,

thank you for your answer. Indeed everything works fine using
`--with=systemd`.

I have found only a minor thing that makes me wonder if timer units
should be treated specially by `deb-systemd-invoke`. After the package
has been installed, `postinst` runs `deb-systemd-invoke` that warns the
user:

> app.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.

For "Type=oneshot" services used with timers that is the intended
behaviour. Maybe one could silence this warning message in that case.
Should I file a bug?

Regards,

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Gioele Barabucci <gioele at svario.it>