On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 01:23:43PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Wed, 2017-11-08 at 11:43 +0100, Florian Schlichting wrote: > > three years ago you reverted a fix for this bug because using an Alias in > > lightdm.service seemed discouraged by the systemd maintainers. As can be > > seen in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764607#24 they > > later changed their mind, and going ahead with > > Alias=display-manager.service would also be part of the fix for #775385, > > which has been cloned for xdm (#832351), nodm (#852125) and sddm > > (#848936). > > Hi, > > was there any coordination with Martin and Joss about this? The display- > manager.service management needs to be shared with all the display managers > anyway.
the bug I linked to contains mails from Didier Roche, where he says that he discussed the topic with Martin and the result is to use an [Install] section with Alias; and he also mentions taking it to the gdm3-pkg team, who discovered an issue with "systemctl enable --force gdm3" failing "due to the autogenerated gdm3 service script". There's #771085 which includes the same suggestion from Andreas Beckmann as the other bugs mentioned above, but no further reaction from the Gnome maintainers; unless maxy is one of them, in which case he commented in #764607 Florian
