Bug#821006: make_systemd_links() does not resolve symlinks

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Sun Mar 10 00:33:18 GMT 2019


On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:44:02 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: init-system-helpers
> Version: 1.29
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
> 
> If a package ships a native service file, like NetworkManager.service,
> and a static symlink, like network-manager.service,
> update-rc.d enable network-manager should resolve the symlink in
> make_systemd_links(), as upstream systemctl does.
> Otherwise we will have a
> /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/network-manager.service
> symlink, when we only want
> /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/NetworkManager.service
> 

This is less of an issue nowadays as update-rc.d will use systemctl if
available, which dtrt.

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