Bug#920296: Installs /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service identical to /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service

[Michael Biebl]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:54:48 -0800 Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 07:52:24PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:15 PM Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > > Package: systemd
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > I installed using the Buster Alpha 4 installer, and for some reason I
> > > ended up with a file
> > > /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service, identical to
> > > /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service. dpkg -S shows it not
> > > owned by any package, and searching through maintainer scripts pointed
> > > to systemd's postinst. systemd shouldn't install a service in /etc
> > > identical to the one already installed in /lib.
> > >
> > 
> > All systemd does is enable the service. On my system that leaves a symlink,
> > not a regular file.
> > Is  /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service a regular
> > file or a symlink?
> 
> It was a regular file.

I don't think it's systemctl/systemd which is responsible for creating
/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service as regular file.
Maybe a file system issue or the result of the file being copied around.

Josh, can you reproduce the issue?

What happens if you remove
/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service and run
systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service (as we do in postinst)

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