[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#849726: mpd: On i686, RestrictNamespaces=yes in Systemd unit does not allow mpd to open sockets

[Florian Schlichting]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 03:32:42PM +0300, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
> Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Your analysis seems to be correct. Until systemd is fixed, you should
> > not use RestrictAddressFamilies=
> > 
> > I'm not sure whether we will get v233 for stretch and if backporting
> > those upstream fixes for v232 is feasible.
> 
> Would it be possible then to temporarily patch systemd as will be
> shipped in Stretch to just fail loading the unit with a descriptive
> error message if it contains the RestrictAddressFamilies directive *and*
> systemd is running on a 32-bit architecture (I think we have i686 and
> x32 by now)?

or, even better, not fail outright but ignore RestrictAddressFamilies
and issue a warning about it?

Florian