[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#778954: Bug#778954: firewalld: no-sysconfig patch completely removes ability to specify start-up options

[Carlos Maddela]

On 23/02/15 11:43, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 23.02.2015 um 01:07 schrieb Carlos Maddela:
>> At the time I was trying to debug some rules I had written in
>> /etc/firewalld/direct.xml, so I wanted more verbose logs.  I found that
>> there was no way of specifying the --debug command line option without
>> directly changing the sysv init script or the systemd unit, which should
>> not be the case.
>
> If you want to debug something, I'd just run firewalld in your terminal
> directly.
> That aside, you can easily use a drop-in snippet to override the
> ExecStart= command.
> So I really don't see the need to introduce a new conffile here.
>
>
Now that you've enlightened me on the finer points of systemd, I would
have to agree with you that this extra conffile would be overkill for
systemd, but for the benefit of Ubuntu, which uses upstart, would you
please reconsider sourcing this conffile in the sysv init script?  This
has always been the convention for sysv, and it would allow for
persistent options to exist without messing around with the actual init
script.

Thanks,

Carlos