Bug#1068504: mumble-server: wrong path for systemd-sysusers file

[Chris Knadle]

Hello Michael and Stefan.

I think I finally figured out what referencing systemd.pc is about. 
There's no systemd-dev package, it looks like system.pc is in the 
"systemd" package. The file can be seen here:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/core/systemd.pc.in

and it looks like this file would need to be sourced in and then 
variable $sysusers_dir or $sysusersdir would be what to reference.

The $sysusers_dir variable would need to be referenced within 
debian/mumble-server.install and I'm not sure what location is 
appropriate to source in /usr/share/pkgconfig/systemd.pc. I'm guessing 
it would be the debian/rules file, perhaps under an override_dh_install 
section.

For the moment I'm going to leave myself notes about this in the 
debian/extras/TODO file as part of the source package until I can figure 
out how to work out referencing systemd.pc, and for now I'm hardcoding 
using usr/lib/sysusers.d/mumble-server.conf in debian/mumble-server.install.

    -- Chris

Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle at coredump.us

On 9/5/24 10:18, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the best way I'd say to fix this is via a build-depends on systemd-dev 
> to get the correct path for the sysusers directory from systemd.pc.
>
> /etc/sysconfig.d is a weird fallback path (which honestly doesn't make 
> a lot of sense) in case systemd.pc is not found.
>
> from auxiliary_files/CMakeLists.txt:
>
>>         get_pkgconf_variable(
>>             OUTPUT_VARIABLE SYSUSERS_DIR
>>             MODULE systemd
>>             VARIABLE_NAME sysusersdir
>>             QUIET
>>         )
>>         if(NOT SYSUSERS_DIR)
>>             # Fallback value, in case it could not be fetched via 
>> pkg-config
>>             set(SYSUSERS_DIR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR}/sysconfig.d")
>>         endif()
>
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 23:01:37 -0400 Chris Knadle 
> <Chris.Knadle at coredump.us> wrote:
>> Greetings.
>>
>> As far as I know /etc/sysconfig.d/ is a directory used by Fedora/Red 
>> Hat based distros, not Debian.
>>
>> Looking through the Git log I see I added this on Feb 1 2023 with the 
>> following commit message:
>>
>>      add etc/sysconfid./mumble-server.conf as the build breaks 
>> without it at compat 13
>>      (it's commit f0cdad5245c6d1de6bff9223c6ce5767c13f9e45)
>>
>> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/*.conf does seem like where this file should go.
>>
>> I've made local Git commits to fix this for the next bugfix upload 
>> (1.5.517-3). Before doing any more uploads I need to look at what's 
>> going on with a number of library transitions going on that could get 
>> negatively affected by uploads of mumble.
>>
>>     -- Chris
>>
>> -- 
>> Chris Knadle
>> Chris.Knadle at coredump.us
>>
>> On 4/6/24 09:12, Stefan Schweizer via Pkg-voip-maintainers wrote:
>> > Package: mumble-server
>> > Severity: normal
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > mumble-server installs a systemd-sysusers file to /etc/sysconfig.d
>> >
>> > According to the sysusers.d(5) man page sysusers files can be 
>> placed in
>> > /etc/sysusers.d/*.conf
>> > /run/sysusers.d/*.conf
>> > /usr/lib/sysusers.d/*.conf
>> >
>> > So installing the sysusers file to /etc/sysconfig.d has no
>> > effect and it should be moved to /usr/lib/sysusers.d.
>> >
>> > Since the mumble-server user is created by the debian package I think
>> > the sysusers file is unnecessary and can be omitted until a switch to
>> > sysusers is made.
>> >
>>
>>