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and subject line Bug#752521: fixed in debhelper 10.9.2
has caused the Debian Bug report #752521,
regarding dh-systemd: Misleading man page statements and command names
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Package: dh-systemd
Version: 1.18
Severity: minor
It is conventional to choose command names that express what the command
does. Accordingly, it is conventional for debhelper command names to
express what they do. For example, the dh_installinit command installs init
files into package build directories.
The dh-systemd package departs from this convention and gives its two
debhelper scripts names that don't express what THEY do, but what the
maintainer scripts that they generate do. The name of the dh_systemd_start
script would conventionally be interpreted to suggest that the command
starts something. But a debhelper command can do no such thing; it cannot
start a service. It can only operate on a package. What it does is prepare
the package so that it starts a unit when installed.
According to debhelper conventions it should be called something starting
with "dh_installsystemd".
Whereas this departure from naming conventions is perhaps merely annoying,
the man pages are downright misleading. dh_systemd_start(1p) says
explicitly "dh_systemd_start is a debhelper program that is responsible for
starting/stopping or restarting systemd unit files".
First, it doesn't really make sense to speak of starting or stopping a
file. Assuming it's the unit or service that's intended, the quoted
statement isn't true. The program does not start a systemd unit, it just
prepares other programs so that they will do that if they are run.
Please fix the man page and rename the commands, leaving behind
compatibility symlinks.
Or else please explain how I am mistaken.
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: debhelper
Source-Version: 10.9.2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debhelper, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Niels Thykier <[email protected]> (supplier of updated debhelper package)
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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 07:19:38 +0000
Source: debhelper
Binary: debhelper dh-systemd
Architecture: source
Version: 10.9.2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
Description:
debhelper - helper programs for debian/rules
dh-systemd - debhelper add-on to handle systemd unit files - transitional pack
Closes: 752521 857306 870768 876486 878325 878427 878460
Changes:
debhelper (10.9.2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Niels Thykier ]
* dh_install: Defer the removal of --list-missing and
--fail-missing until compat 12.
* dh: Run the new dh_installsystemd helper by default in compat 11.
* systemd.pm: Remove the sequence in compat 11. It has been replaced
by the new dh_installsystemd helper.
.
[ Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer ]
* qmake.pm: Remove unnecessary "-nocache" parameter.
(Closes: #878427, LP: #1206234)
.
[ Ville Skyttä ]
* Fix a number of spelling mistakes. (Closes: #878325)
.
[ Felipe Sateler ]
* dh_installsystemd: New command (currently noop except when used in
the experimental compat 11). This new helper:
- Generates postinst code for tmpfiles (now that dh_installinit
does not).
- Follows the naming convention for other built-in dh_* commands.
- Replaces dh_systemd_enable and dh_systemd_start in compat 11
and later.
- Only acts on units with the name specified by "--name" when this
option is given.
(Closes: #752521, #857306, #870768, #876486)
* dh_systemd_enable: Remove as obsolete in compat 11.
* dh_systemd_start: Ditto.
.
[ Helmut Grohne ]
* cmake.pm: Also supply PKGCONFIG_EXECUTABLE for obsolete
UsePkgConfig.cmake. (Closes: #878460)
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