Package: iperf3
Version: 3.13-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: pietro.pi...@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

when installing iperf3 on trixie, the following error is displayed:

/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper was not called from dpkg. Exiting.
/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper was not called from dpkg. Exiting.
Failed to stop iperf3.service: Unit iperf3.service not loaded.
Selecting previously unselected package iperf3.

Below the full console log:

# apt install iperf3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  iperf3
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 34.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 88.1 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 iperf3 amd64 3.13-2 [34.4
kB]
Fetched 34.4 kB in 0s (236 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper was not called from dpkg. Exiting.
/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper was not called from dpkg. Exiting.
Failed to stop iperf3.service: Unit iperf3.service not loaded.
Selecting previously unselected package iperf3.
(Reading database ... 361213 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../iperf3_3.13-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking iperf3 (3.13-2) ...
Setting up iperf3 (3.13-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...

The same applies on bookworm:

# apt install iperf3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  iperf3
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 33.8 kB of archives.
After this operation, 88.1 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 file:/etc/apt/mirrors/debian.list Mirrorlist [38 B]
Get:2 https://cdn-aws.deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 iperf3 amd64
3.12-1 [33.8 kB]
Fetched 33.8 kB in 0s (442 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper was not called from dpkg. Exiting.
/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper was not called from dpkg. Exiting.
Failed to stop iperf3.service: Unit iperf3.service not loaded.
Selecting previously unselected package iperf3.
(Reading database ... 44359 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../iperf3_3.12-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking iperf3 (3.12-1) ...
Setting up iperf3 (3.12-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...

The apt command exits with 0 status and the software is installed anyway and it
is working. Anyway that annoying message is catched by my automatic
installation scripts as if something has gone wrong during the installation.

Regards
Pietro


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages iperf3 depends on:
ii  adduser                3.134
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.82
ii  init-system-helpers    1.65.2
ii  libc6                  2.37-3
ii  libiperf0              3.13-2

iperf3 recommends no packages.

iperf3 suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded

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