Bug#1014115: uninstall does not properly remove enablement symlinks

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 at 15:08, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Am 30.06.22 um 14:26 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > This might be a bug in i-s-h, but filing against systemd-homed for
> > now.
> >
> > systemd-homed.service:
> > [Install]
> > WantedBy=multi-user.target
> > Alias=dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service
> > Also=systemd-homed-activate.service systemd-userdbd.service
> >
> > systemd-homed-activate.service:
> > [Install]
> > WantedBy=systemd-homed.service
> > Also=systemd-homed.service
> >
> > → we have a circular dependency here, maybe deb-systemd-helper get's
> > confused by that
>
>
> I just checked that we can mitigate this issue by removing this circular
> Also= dependency. It is indeed deb-systemd-helper getting confused by
> that and as a result not writing proper state files to
> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper.
> So the damage is already done during installation in postinst.
> Thus raising to RC to warn users from installing systemd-homed atm.
>
> I propose a patch like the attached one, i.e. dropping the Also= from
> systemd-homed-active.service. WDYT?
>
> I've also cloned the issue for i-s-h, as we might want to fix that
> properly. My perl is a bit rusty, so would appreciate help with that.
>
> @bluca: do you think the attached patch is suitable for upstream?
>
> I find this circular Also= dependency kinda odd, I have to admit.

I don't think so, this seems clearly a bug in i-s-h. Ideally we should
really drop all of that and just use presets as RPMs do... but it's a
lot of work.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi