Hi Michael, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> writes: > to reproduce the problem, do the following steps: > 1/ apt-get install rsyslog > → symlinks are properly created > # find systemd/ -name "*syslog*" > systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/rsyslog.service > systemd/system/syslog.service > > 2/ apt-get remove rsyslog > → symlinks are removed > # apt-get remove rsyslog > [..] > rm '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/rsyslog.service' > rm '/etc/systemd/system/syslog.service' > > 3/ apt-get install rsyslog > → symlinks are not re-created The reason is that “deb-systemd-helper was-enabled” returns false after the “apt-get remove rsyslog”, therefore the postinst will not call “deb-systemd-helper enable” when installing in step 3/.
I’d argue that this is expected behavior, given that in postrm we run “deb-systemd-helper disable”. Now the question is why we do that :). Especially with regards to #714903 it occurs to me that masking the files instead of disabling (= removing the symlinks) is the better alternative here. What do you think? -- Best regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
