Bug#1111330: systemd: Please allow a easy way to override counter of hit restart during postinst and so on

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: tags -1 upstream
Control: close -1

On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 22:46:40 +0200 Bastien Roucaries <rouca at debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 257.7-1
> Severity: important
> 
> During autopkgtest of apache2 I was hit a by start-limit-hit
> 
> I do not know 
> systemctl reset-failed service was needed and I think we could hit
quite easilly the limit during maintainer script of install...
> 
> Could be possible to a flag and an environment variable
(SYSTEMD_RESET_FAILED=yes)  that is set before going to maint script ?
> 
> systemctl start --reset-failed will be also nice to have
> 
> rouca

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